All the old sympathies of his sea-life strongly inclined him to follow Allan's suggestion; but the wind was falling light, and he distrusted the broken water and the swirling currents of the channel ahead.
Sailors distrusted the sea-worthiness of the ship, and disliked the look of the vagabond crew.
But Miss Milroy disliked and distrusted me from the first.
My mother disliked and distrusted Ingleby from the first.
How darkly his forebodings had distrusted the coming time, and how harmlessly that time had come!
Jem distrusted her soft and "holy" ways, more especially her speech, which had the lofty condescension of the saved towards the damned in prospective.
He had distrusted Jennifer's show of ignorance, believing he was being fenced with, played with, even royally lied to; but this merely served to heighten his curiosity and amusement.
Of necessity he distrusted the evidence of his own senses, finding sight and hearing in direct conflict thus.
Rhodes never recovered any real political influence, was distrusted by English and Dutch alike, looked upon with caution by the Cape Government, and with suspicion even among his followers.
After the foolish attempt to seize hold of their country, the Boers distrusted British honour and British integrity; and doubting the word or promises of England, they made her responsible for this mistake of Cecil Rhodes.
Hated as he was by some, distrusted as he remained by almost everybody, yet there was nothing mean about Cecil Rhodes.
She was unassuming and distrusted her own powers, so that she secured as a collaborator a German musician, named Damcke, who had lived in Paris a long time and who was highly esteemed.
It took an enormous amount of time to undo this mischief, for I distrustedsomewhat my own lights and Mlle.
Banquo, his ancient comrade in arms, distrusted Macbeth; he suspected him of playing most foully to win his present high honours.
Have patience, sir, and take your ring again,” counselled Philario, who all through this interview had keenly distrusted the plausible Iachimo.
Philip of Macedon offered to come and drive out Nabis if the Achaians would help him, but theydistrusted him, and did not choose to go to war with the Romans, whom the robber Ætolians had called from Italy to assist them.
He more than ever distrusted his own powers after his first four years in the seminary.
It was now plain to Josè that Rosendo distrusted him.
But, even while engaged in this hospitable manner, the Dahcotah did not fail to keep a strict watch on the more distant party of white men, as if he still distrusted an artifice, or sought further explanation.
The men in the two parties looked at each other in silence for a moment, and if ever I had distrusted Captain Falk, I distrusted him four times more when I saw the mild, sleek smile on Kipping's face.
But they left Serbia unsatisfactorily strong, and Serbia distrusted Austria, and controlled the communications with Constantinople.
On the contrary, we believe that, as a statesman, he distrusted it seriously, and has even now little confidence in its success.
She evidentlydistrusted the Fontainebleau doctor and me.
Hengest and Horsa were at first given the island of Thanet as a home, but soon quarrelled with their British allies, and gradually possessed themselves of what became the kingdom of Kent.
There is a subjective sensation of mental brilliance, but, as in other cases, this is not borne out by the objective results.
A few considered it sounded a little improper, and as though the book, far from being religious, would not be altogether nice; but only very proper people who distrusted everything, even arms took this view.
Madame Christophor," he said, "once you told me that you disliked and distrusted all men.
You have told me that you hated my sex, that you distrusted us all.
It made her a little angry, because she was unfamiliar with this sort of thing and distrusted it.
I was never your enemy, even when I distrusted you.
It was a mistake on my part ever to have distrusted her.
His enemies (for even Father Rocco had them) did not scruple to assert that the change in him was decidedly for the worse, and that he belonged to the order of men who are most to be distrusted when they become most subdued.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distrusted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
