How to Use confide in in a Sentence

confide in

phrasal verb

• To laugh with you, to cry with you, to confide in you, to trust you, to comfort you, to support you.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Counselors may be the one person that a student can truly open up to and confide in.
  — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
• Deb also confides in Dex about Gio and suggests a double date with him and Sofia.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
• Dunne writes that Montgomery confided in Ellen about Cammann while on the job.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
• And about a month before her death, Susann had confided in Rick Leeds.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 May 2024
• Around this time, a good friend confided in me about being plagued with suicidal thoughts.
  — Brad Jacobs, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• Another possibility would be to confide in a friend or colleague, though that can be tricky and a roll of the dice.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
• Ronney will have the messages to prove Eric confided in him about getting high.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• Alone again, Meredith confides in her pseudo-dad figure some more.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
• Two people who Voigt confided in about the incident confirmed the story to Vox.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 May 2024
• His daughter decides not throw the buoy and save him, instead confiding in her friend Harper (Myha’la) to cover her tracks.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• Imagine that Simpson had continued to confide in him from jail.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
• Dealing with children, parents and close friends with love and support will encourage them to confide in you.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
• Ryan said the victim confided in a number of people that Bady had threatened her as recently as the middle of last week.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
• In such an arrangement, young lovers cannot kiss nor touch but merely confide in one another.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2023
• The two had known each other since their law school days at Stanford, yet the chief justice and the associate justice had not confided in each other about their plans.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Don’t confide in others when using the element of surprise.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2024
• Over the years, each had confided in the other about their innermost struggles—in high school, Carter had come out to his father, and Bubba had shared his secrets with his son.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2024
• Queen Charlotte then confronts her, not only for breaking her brother's heart but for not confiding in her during a tough time.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 12 May 2023
• One weary buyer confided in Parrish, cried on his shoulder.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
• Violette is at the heart of this small world, populated by the local gravediggers and a young priest as well as the many visitors, who stop by her lodge and confide in her about their lives and lost ones.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
• Peer-to-peer support groups are founded on these simple ideas: First, that a young person is more likely to confide in another young person.
  — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Jan. 2025
• Lorraine had confided in her friend Carol, a single woman who knew about those other affairs, and had promised to vacate her flat.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• And not just in Balanchine, and not just in ballet, but also, for example, in flamenco—how the singer and the dancer respect each other, confide in each other.
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2023
• Mothers who have confided in Nemer report their kids constantly asking to watch the news or role-playing the war by forming gangs and fighting in schools.
  — TIME, 27 Feb. 2024
• Sophie confided in her mom about the betrayal, and contemplated what came next.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
• In this case, however, letting Annie confide in a friend or two could loosen things up in her, which would ultimately benefit you.
  — Sierra Greer, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
• Sara Haines agreed, stating that Lyle confided in his cousin about the ongoing abuse, who informed his mother, Kitty Menendez, but nothing was done.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• Both women, who were expecting their first child and due to deliver their daughters roughly two months apart, confided in each other on set.
  — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
• My partner has been having some health issues, and she’s only recently confided in some friends and family about it.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Mar 2025