This letter goes by too hazardous a conveyance to admit of my entering into many of those causes of complaint, which daily administer food to distrusts and jealousies between Spain and the people of this country.
I am persuaded, the last hope of Britain is founded on the distrusts they may sow among their enemies.
The child disregards or distrusts the judgments of his elders not on abstract grounds, but merely from an instinctive feeling that adults do not look at things from his point of view.
The student regards it as part of the pedagogic duty to praise whatever is taught, and instinctively distrusts commendation which he feels may be only formal and official.
She distrusts his influence, even now, over the cabinet at Madrid.
Groen, however, distruststhe authenticity of this MS.
It is said, and probably with truth, that he distrusts the overtures of alliance made to him.
The wily Imam therefore distrusts the Franks though dona ferentes, and dreads lest they who should come into the mountains as allies might remain there as masters.
He means, uncle, that we had needs be silent, perhaps he distrusts the persons we are about to meet.
He becomes deaf to the voice he used to obey; he is a lion in a fever; he distrustshis keeper and refuses to be controlled.
A well-known English novelist once said quite truly that an Englishman very rarely distrusts his wife, and never by any chance distrusts the girl who is to become his wife; and just the same may be said of the German of the better classes.
My chance of getting at it unobserved may be seriously compromised, if the nurse remembers that she first met with me in your house, and distrusts me accordingly.
Nature's protecting care of fools supplies them with an instinct which distrusts ability.
At any rate," he thought, as he reached the square unconscious of his steps, "she no longer distrusts me.
I don't wonder the Republic distrusts a province where they knock their harvest from trees with poles, and shoot travellers from the ditches.
That great mass of mutual distrust, so that to-day down there white man distrusts white man and black, black man distrusts black man and white, may seem on a superficial review to be justified.
This goes so far that he distrusts oratorical or literary talent; in any event when he entrusts active positions or a part in public business then he takes no note of it.
At bottom, he distrusts them and is ill-disposed toward them.
The Canadian, while he knows your power, distrusts your wisdom and your capacity to conduct the war; he dares not commit himself, his all, to such auspices.
But, then, everybody here distrusts everybody else, the daughter distrusts her father, and even her lover.
He distrusts the engineer because he thinks him overzealous, that is all.
There is nothing which a low and rude mind more surely resents and distrusts than gentle manners.
This will be easy, for he already distruststhe engineer.
The Front distrusts politics, and especially the higher politics.
THE GAS FIEND There is an order of minds that intuitively distrusts Science, detracts from the force of her achievements, and contends that devotion to machinery ends by making men machines.
You would excite her suspicions at once, for the worthy woman strongly distrusts young men who have nothing to do but court pretty girls, for you'll find that her girls are pretty.
And the crowd distrusts wit, and that is why the witty plays of Oscar Wilde are seldom produced, while Charley's Aunt goes on for ever.
The only time a Scot distrusts other Scots is when they fuss over him.
My friend, who distrusts the Archbishop as much as you distrust him, and more if that be possible, is now in Treves not knowing what has become of me.
If you leave Thuron I shall instantly propose alliance with him, who now thoroughly distrusts you, and he will gladly join me, for I have never pretended to be his friend, and he has ever feared me as an enemy.
Diffidence distrusts itself; shyness distrusts the mere outward impression made on others.
The Sicilian distruststhe law and above all he distrusts his neighbor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distrusts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
