Example Sentences

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Confided one longtime producer: “I think what’s going to happen is a lot of shows will open, and there just won’t be audience to fill them.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

Confided in - and deeply hurt by - Richard Nixon.

From Washington Times • Feb. 21, 2018

Confided Olivier optimistically to a friend last summer: "I am going through an extremely tricksy situation of trying to recover and get strong again after a lengthy illness."

From Time Magazine Archive

Confided a close Vance aide: "He wants to press them for the limits of their positions."

From Time Magazine Archive

The reticent volcano keeps    His never slumbering plan; Confided are his projects pink    To no precarious man.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily