intrusting

Example Sentences

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In the very intrusting my children to your care, do I not prove that I must think you so?

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace

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 Todd, David Peck

When the understanding fully masters a thing before intrusting it to the memory, what it afterward draws therefrom is in reality its own.

From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The sea brings out the real character of every man; and those who journey over its "deep invisible paths" find themselves intrusting their most sacred confidences to the keeping of comparative strangers.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard