DISTRUST in a Sentence

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However, Jacopo insisted on following him, and Dantes did not oppose this, fearing if he did so that he might incur distrust.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTRUST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distrust
 v.  doubt about someone's honesty
 v.  regard as untrustworthy, have no faith or confidence in
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Woman," resumed Tholomyes; "distrust her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
2  That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
3  One can only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are dark in both directions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
4  Nevertheless, when one has Beresina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
5  They distrust the day because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids in surprising them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
6  A certain clever ignorance constitutes a force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
7  To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  There was a look of excitement and triumph on her face which brought sudden distrust to Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this historical story of Jonah and the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
10  Each crisis would leave Jurgis more and more frightened, more disposed to distrust Elzbieta's consolations, and to believe that there was some terrible thing about all this that he was not allowed to know.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  From his home his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own country with distrust.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  At first the captain had received Dantes on board with a certain degree of distrust.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
13  However, Jacopo insisted on following him, and Dantes did not oppose this, fearing if he did so that he might incur distrust.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
14  Why, my dear mother, it is necessary, in order to make your advice turn to account, that I should know beforehand what I have to distrust.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
15  Now, the cabbage had not the slightest appearance of disease in the world, and the rabbit had not the smallest distrust; yet, five minutes afterwards, the rabbit was dead.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
Example Sentence:
1  He is devoting much of his energy to implanting an element of distrust in the community.
2  There's an element of calculation in his behaviour that makes me distrust him.
3  Negotiations between unions and management are made more difficult by mutual distrust.
4  I don't have any particular reason to distrust them.
5  Our reporter looks at reactions to Britain's apparently deep-rooted distrust of her EU partner.
6  The two groups have existed in a state of mutual distrust for centuries.
7  Study says police must undo community distrust, which it calls a barrier to outreach.
8  Another consequence is the generation of distrust between the grassroots and the leadership.
9  He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data.