confide
verb (used without object)
to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed byin ).
were confiding
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past progressiveof confide.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At points, I wished I could call a time-out and ask the actors to exhale and speak their lines as though they were confiding them to a close friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
The Washington-London-Paris agreement, M. Auriol dramatically explained, has been under super-secret negotiation ever since last June, not a word of what Morgenthau, Chamberlain and Auriol were confiding to each other having leaked to the press.
From Time Magazine Archive
The voice had become soft, as if the man were confiding a secret.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
We were quarrelling over all kinds of little things, but at the same time we were confiding in each other more than ever.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
“Aha. So you were confiding a secret to Abigail?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
