intrust
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- intrustment noun
Example Sentences
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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
He doesn't return from New York until six o'clock this evening, and the paper is far too valuable to intrust to the mails or to an underling.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson
She had dropped into familiarity of speech with him, but he, still hopeful of persuading her to intrust a profitable r�clame to him, continued to treat her formally.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton
Will she intrust her happiness to my keeping, and change the darkest shadow that ever lowered over my life into a gleam of unspeakable brightness?
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
I like you: there is no one in the world to whom I would so readily intrust the happiness of Florence.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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