intrust

Example Sentences

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What you told me about Jeths intrust made good readin.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

A true and gallant gentleman!" said he, slowly repeating her own words; "and if so, is it an unsafe keeping to which to intrust your happiness?

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Early in the morning the king called his eldest son to him and said, “If a man to whom I intrust my honour and my life prove faithless, how should he be punished?”

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Day, Lal Behari

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