The phrase "confided by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone has shared something personal or secret with someone else. Example: Sarah confided by her best friend that she was planning to quit her job and move to France.
"Bill takes it hard when the numbers aren't what he thinks they should be," his wife, Sue, confided by e-mail.
Sexual specifics that Thompson confided by letter to Schorer's discretion can now be broadcast: She summed up Lewis's problem as premature ejaculation due to nervousness: "He could be tender, playful, delightful with women except in the sexual relationship".
At his first sight of Anne Boleyn, Rowan glances over his shoulder at the gallery to confide: "By heaven, she is a dainty one".
He much prefers his Range Rover to his Rolls-Royce, he confides by way of example, but it was the latter he parked outside Claridge's for his party.
Given the tawdriness of the material, I kept feeling, "Get this stuff off me!" With all the "you do this" and "you think that", reading this memoir is like being confided to by a woman who spits when she talks.
Livia, a twice-widowed gentlewoman of the Florentine court, at first appears merely to be the kind of supplementary female facilitator on hand to offer advice to lovestruck youngsters, or to be confided in by unhappy brides.
The chi-square test was used to evaluate the significance of associations among experiences of being confided in by customers, type of conversation, and demographic characteristics.
"I've never seen a cruise audience be so ornery to its guest speakers," he confided to me by the Stairmasters, adding, "and it's not only the New Yorkers, either".
His empathy and sensitivity, he confided, were inspired by watching his mother's struggle with depression.
Anne patiently listens to the many various complaints confided in her by each of the Musgroves, which includes Mary's husband Charles, sisters-in-law Louisa (Emma Roberts) and Henrietta (Victoria Hamilton), and parents-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove (Roger Hammond and Judy Cornwell).
In my teaching classes we were clearly instructed of our legal obligation to report any abuse that is confided in us by our students -- we are not attorneys, psychologists or priests.
