Example Sentences

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The next thing you know, through happenstance and sheer will, involving a wedding celebration, a manufactured passport, and new breasts, Tish ventures forth, trustingly leaving friends, family, and country.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2018

Mr Ford's character trustingly enlists the agent's help and hands him a weapon, provoking a wonderful, audible groan across the threatrical audience.

From Economist • Feb. 24, 2014

One frank portrait shows her looking trustingly straight to camera: on the back he captioned it "nee Charlotte Payne-Townshend Mrs Bernard Shaw" – then crossed that out and wrote "The green-eyed millionairess".

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2011

But West trustingly continued with the club ten, his highest remaining club being a suit-preference signal for hearts.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2011

The ones stepping so trustingly into the cave?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix