distrust

Example Sentences

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There’s also a distrust that anything agreed upon at the summit will stick.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Our Journal correspondent Yoko Kubota, who recently left the country after eight years, reflects on how a distrust of foreigners has come to permeate everyday life in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

It becomes noisier, more error-prone, and easier to distrust.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

“Given the distrust that we have in this country right now with the federal government, it would not be wise to do that,” Weber said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

It could not be a problem she ever encountered, with her educated upper-crust vowels, but being a Scot, she sympathized with any distrust of the soft Southern English.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein