intrusting
Example Sentences
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Imagine present-day Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty intrusting a ship of the British navy to civilian command.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
Were Bluebeard to do me the honor of intrusting me with his keys, I should spend a pleasant half-hour speculating on his family affairs.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
"Thus, your highness, King James gives you a mark of the highest confidence in intrusting to you the defense of his rights and those of his young son."
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
Your gallant record justifies us in intrusting the papers to your care.
From Guy in the Jungle A Boy's Adventure in the Wilds of Africa by William Murray Graydon
He enjoined that the building should forthwith be destroyed, intrusting the task to the swift hands of Theophilus.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
