Example Sentences

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Her family had mourned their beloved matriarch in the intimacy of Balmoral Castle, where she died last Thursday; now they were entrusting her to the nation.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Last week, from Los Angeles to Long Island, the unhandy were entrusting chores to a new and spreading U.S. service: the home-repair club.

From Time Magazine Archive

The assistant-surgeons knew that they were entrusting their patients to skilful and experienced hands.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

There came to the young man a sobering perception of the risk she ran, of the supreme folly of this escapade to which they were entrusting themselves.

From The Fortieth Door by Bradley, Mary Hastings