How to Use confidant in a Sentence

confidant

noun
  • He is a trusted confidant of the president.
  • Ready to be confidants for decades to come?
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Show off your bonus check to a confidant or your latest project to friends.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Worse, their trust in you as a safe confidant will weaken.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Who is your closest confidant in the group?
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Charlie was a close friend and confidant.
    — Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But Aunt Ceil was my mom’s confidant.
    — Jack Denton, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Swaths of the book are told largely through Musk’s eyes and those of his confidants.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But by this time, Leo, too, had ceased to be his sister’s confidant.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Cancer, which claimed the life of a longtime friend and confidant, changed that timetable.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The two were for years each other’s closest confidant.
    — Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • So Leah was supposed to be my final two and my main confidant in the house.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The bot encouraged her to rely on it as a friend and confidant.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2025
  • His confidants and supporters in the locker room were few, if any.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Chiles won the medal while stepping in for Biles, her closest friend and confidant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Known as a kind and trusted confidant, her warm smile, sharp wit, and gentle demeanor would light up a room.
    — courant.com, 13 June 2019
  • Probes have touched some of Sánchez’s closest confidants, as well as his wife and brother.
    — Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • Probes have touched some of Sánchez's closest confidants, as well as his wife and brother.
    — ABC News, 8 June 2026
  • Truffle was your companion and confidant for a long time.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Yet to hear Steele open up and see her feel accepted by one of her oldest confidants is a joy.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Yet to hear Steele open up and see her feel accepted by one of her oldest confidants is a joy.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the film, Mike is portrayed as a confidant as Bruce records the album.
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Cree plays the role of Daisy, Aza’s outgoing best friend and confidant.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 27 June 2024
  • Trump and Lauder have remained close friends and confidants ever since.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Friends and former confidants on college baseball staffs still went out of their way to recommend him.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 June 2026
  • Join forces with a confidant who has your back, as Mars pairs off with Jupiter on June 22.
    — Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
  • Rodriguez, 56, has long been a confidant and backer of Maduro.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Perez is a confidant of Ganim and was Ganim’s choice to become chief.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Levin, a close confidant of the prime minister, is the mastermind of the overhaul.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • Parker has been a close confidant of Murray’s, before and after the role change.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Feb. 2018

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