Sentence examples for confide to another from inspiring English sources

Confide to another friend or family member.

For example, seconds after one of the receptionists confided to another how sad she was about the accidental death of a young patient, the office telephone rang.

Shenk reports a popular joke about Lincoln: one old lady confides to another that she thinks the Confederates will win the war because their President, Jefferson Davis, prays.

A haunting inversion comes to us in the report of a Connecticut hostess who overheard the wife of a Madison Avenue advertising executive confiding to another woman guest, "It was Harry's first compromise with art".

Mochkofsky's book, which came out in August, said that Héctor Magnetto, the ailing Clarín C.E.O., had once confided to another Clarín executive that Herrera de Noble had no idea where her children had come from.

"The combative, ambitious Trimble — he had confided to another officer that after the next battle he would be "either a major general or a corpse"— got the go-ahead from Jackson, who later sent Jeb Stuart's cavalry along as well.

After the Karachi attack, Ms. Bhutto confided to another friend of mine, a former police officer who knew her well: "I am not sure if they are actually trying to kill me or just scare me.

When, as the editor of a new journal, he is sedulously courting the 77-year-old George Saintsbury, Eliot hastens to tell him that he is "the most eminent English critic of our time"; two years later, the journal now established, he frankly confides to another correspondent: "Saintsbury, for all his merits, now has little point".

By Peter De Vries The New Yorker, August 30 , 1958P. 22 A haunting inversion comes to us in the report of a Connecticut hostess who overheard the wife of a Madison Avenue advertising executive confiding to another woman guest, "It was Harry's first compromise with art".

In Tom Stoppard's one-acter The Real Inspector Hound (1968), which depicts the press night of a spoof Mousetrap-like murder mystery, one of the reviewers confides to another before the performance begins: "Me and the lads have had a meeting in the bar and decided it's first-class family entertainment but, if it goes on beyond half-past ten, it's self-indulgent".

He had confided to another friend that he was questioning his sexuality, and was devastated to see his private struggle posted on the web for the whole world to see.