How to Use distrustful in a Sentence

distrustful

adjective
  • Hannah looks back at her with old, sad eyes and an initially distrustful face.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • This, in a nutshell, is why players are so distrustful of the media.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Some Black voters are distrustful of mail voting and plan to vote in person.
    — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Because of this, many consumers have become wary and distrustful.
    — Marc Paulenich, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • But the droid Mando's been so distrustful of all this time becomes his savior.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The two of them are, in the first act, tense and distrustful of each other’s worldviews and theories of art.
    — Two Kings, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Over time, the person on the receiving end becomes distrustful of you.
    — Tessa West, Contributor, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Most victims of far-right violence are deeply distrustful of the police.
    — Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2021
  • And above all else, the male politicians around them are disrespectful and distrustful.
    — Peter Kastor, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Some of his patients are distrustful of the government and may not want to get a shot from someone in uniform.
    — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Italian soccer remains a culture that is deeply distrustful of youth.
    — New York Times, 10 June 2021
  • People are distrustful of public health.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
  • The agencies urged people not to like, discuss or share posts online from unknown or distrustful sources.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The agencies urged people not to like, discuss, or share posts online from unknown or distrustful sources.
    — Steven Lee Myers, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed the lives of two of her sons and the loss has made Celiz deeply distrustful of the authorities.
    — Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • That type of person is not interested in a distrustful and rigid workplace.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And Misty is not Simone, and so Misty comes from a place of being distrustful.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
  • Then there’s the challenge of getting people distrustful of the system to accept help.
    — Skyler Swisher, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • In the eye of this distrustful hurricane is one human being who is the president for a while longer.
    — Star Tribune, 9 Dec. 2020
  • His friend Jack Sturman (right) will vote for Labour but is distrustful of politicians.
    — Judith Vonberg, CNN, 30 May 2017
  • Users are right to be distrustful of Twitter after this debacle.
    — Kenneth Jeyaretnam, WIRED, 31 July 2012
  • For some reason, Beth takes it upon herself to pop down there to make sure the sales go okay, distrustful of Travis.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
  • This complicated web of lies, betrayals, and cover-ups leads her to be distrustful.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • The reaction to the killing, in a country already distrustful of the police and the elite, was both swift and unusual.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Since the election, the phrase has become popular among an online right distrustful of legacy news outlets.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Some Black and Latino voters are distrustful of mail voting, surveys show.
    — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Current employes may also become distrustful and less loyal as a result.
    — Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Yang began to understand why her mother was so deeply distrustful of the South and was instead drawn to the North.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In front of a police bus parked there twenty-four hours a day, a few riot squad officers standing around casting distrustful glances at passers-by.
    — Patrick Strickland, The New York Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Xi Jinping, long distrustful of the private sector, is moving assertively to bring it to heel.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020

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