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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of entrust.

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Examples

  • Darwin entrusted the education of his four younger sons to carefully chosen Anglican clergy.

    Berlinski stirring the pot 2010

  • And it is primarily about architects, a group Mr. Cohen describes as "entrusted with a very wide range of tasks that made them far more than enlisted citizens."

    Building for War Julie V. Iovine 2011

  • And it is primarily about architects, a group Mr. Cohen describes as "entrusted with a very wide range of tasks that made them far more than enlisted citizens."

    Building for War Julie V. Iovine 2011

  • As Mrs. Brown passed this latter gentleman in silence, we could not help smiling -- hoping she might have to think as well of his powers as he did himself, and that all titles entrusted to his care might be safely delivered; for we knew Mrs. Bramston would not be called

    Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867

  • Even his activity, in a calling entrusted to him for the promotion of the kingdom of God, may likewise so absorb him as to obscure the consciousness that he has here no abiding home, that his native country is in Heaven.

    The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: I. The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, Practically Explained. 1789-1850 1853

  • The girl was then "entrusted" to Ms. Minetti, because efforts to place the girl with social services were "fruitless," police said.

    Italy's PM Under Fire Over Help for a Teen Stacy Meichtry 2010

  • The statement also said a meeting of the government's council of ministers had "entrusted" the running of the country to Kabila's son, Major-General Joseph Kabila.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • The old captain to whose care we are "entrusted" is in civilian life a patent lawyer in London.

    Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

  • They had been "entrusted" to Joseph (v. 4), and Joseph took all such commissions very seriously.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • No wonder, then, that an air of peculiar respectability attached itself to the "wheel" itself which revolved in a corner of the barroom night after night, whirling into opulence or penury, such as entrusted their fortunes to its revolutions.

    Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884

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