How to Use distrust in a Sentence

distrust

1 of 2 noun

• He has a distrust of doctors.
• And the roots of Black distrust in health care go back well before that.
  — Bill Novelli, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• Rob met the confession with a mix of anger and distrust.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• The seeds of distrust have been growing in America’s civic garden, and the world’s, for a long time.
  — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• Or, perhaps, our distrust of the state that might be hiding things from us.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• The anger and distrust were still there, too, along with uneasy questions about what might come next. .
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• As fear and distrust swirl around them, the group must work together to survive.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
• The latest survey found that distrust has grown for some other groups, too.
  — Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• And outright bans on AI tools could cement a culture of distrust.
  — WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
• But Heard's Dan Gallagher warns that this won't mean the end of Washington's distrust of big tech mergers.
  — WSJ, 12 July 2023
• The distrust of the A.K.P. is so strong in Diyarbakir that the earthquake was met by what was arguably the swiftest and most organized civilian response.
  — Jenna Krajeski, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
• One of the biggest hurdles for her was distrust from parents in the community.
  — Anya Gruener, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• Which is why this distrust of science was so shocking to me during the pandemic ...
  — Adam Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• Opening up about your guilt and distrust in yourself can make the relationship even stronger.
  — Women's Health, 3 Apr. 2023
• As a first bill moves toward passage, distrust runs deep, and protesters vow to resist.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
• Unions warned against trying to block the move, saying this would fuel anger over the increase in the retirement age to 64 from 62, as well as distrust in parliament.
  — Samy Adghirni, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
• Family members often respond with violence or distrust or may even kick the child out of the house.
  — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Knight and Gallup survey found that Democrats are more trusting of the news than Republicans, while the level of distrust among independents has spiked over the past five years.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 15 Feb. 2023
• Despite the distrust, moving forward with bivalent shots may not be a bad thing, Dr. Schaffner said.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 27 Jan. 2023
• For many American participants, the experience helped pierce the distrust built up over the Cold War.
  — Jane Gottlieb, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• Under Bush, who’d seen the value of trade as Texas governor, Mexican distrust eased.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Our politics is broken, marked by anger, contempt and distrust.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2023
• At its prickliest, this is a film about the ways social niceties can mask deep distrust and dark pasts — which still have a way of surfacing eventually.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• The public holds high distrust on the issue of climate change for both political parties, the survey also shows.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
• The college students who rushed en masse to a hospital in Thessaloniki to donate blood shared his feelings of rage and distrust.
  — Emma Bubola, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• In that light, the book is also a kind of shadow history of Americans’ distrust in government through much of the 20th century.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• España acknowledged that the secrecy prompts questions among members of the public, even distrust of the system.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• One of the biggest drivers of distrust is the lack of representation at health care companies, Whaley said.
  — Ashley Lutz, Fortune Well, 26 Apr. 2023
• But that hasn’t fundamentally changed the dynamics of outbreaks; the distrust of the outsiders who come to try to extinguish Ebola’s spread remains, Sprecher said.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Mar. 2024
• Of course, there have long been attempts at political interference in academia, with a distrust of elitism smoldering beneath the widespread disdain for the ivory tower.
  — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024

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distrust

2 of 2 verb

• She's always distrusted their promises.
• Many of his supporters have been primed to distrust any vote that doesn’t go his way.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2022
• Take down too much and users will begin to distrust the platform.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 19 Aug. 2022
• By this point Wang was distrusted by many people close to Ray, sources say.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• My comment of distrusting TJ was way before the bridge.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2023
• That gap was partly attributed to distrust sowed by decades of abuse.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, the anger and distrust between the two sides reverberates for the entire sports world to see.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
• The white residents of Money hate them out of prejudice; the Black ones distrust them as cops.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• Well, Americans have been taught to distrust the one party that can deliver the goods, the Democrats.
  — Kevin Morrow, The Week, 28 Feb. 2022
• Lloyd over-eggs the dread, distrusting your ability to get subtext.
  — Vulture, 9 Mar. 2023
• And yet many in this country still distrust science and scientists.
  — Kai Bird, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• To my knowledge my wife has never done anything like that and has never given me a reason to distrust her.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Those who believe the shirtsleeves prophecy may be led to distrust their children and place undue restrictions on their use of the wealth.
  — Dennis Jaffe, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• But many Afghans distrust the Taliban and fear that their rule will be violent and oppressive.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2021
• Most clients initially distrust Roca and refuse to answer the phone or open their door when case workers come calling.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• Many of them have since come to distrust the commission, which consists of three Republicans and three Democrats.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• And if one or more of these aren’t met, should one distrust the algorithm altogether?
  — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• If your husband has given you no other reason to distrust his faithfulness, please give him the benefit of the doubt.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2021
• Now, the centers of power in Washington are telling audiences to distrust the posture from the other side.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Mar. 2022
• Players continued to voice outrage and distrust toward the league throughout the weekend.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• But Grimm concluded in the memo that the guidelines do not exclude parents or encourage children to distrust them.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2022
• How had so many people on his medical staff seemingly come to distrust science and medicine?
  — Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2021
• Secrets, fears and distrust seep through Gunthrum as Flanagan shows how these issues become a part of the daily fabric of the residents’ lives.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2021
• Last but probably not least, many journalists distrust the New York Post.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
• If the first-order worry is that people will get duped, the second-order worry is that the fear of deepfakes will lead people to distrust everything.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
• Schiff never quite knows whether to admire or distrust the elusive yet ubiquitous Adams.
  — Alan Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• The missteps hampered the early response to the pandemic, public-health experts said, and likely contributed to distrust in the CDC.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• What does the basic decency of the world in which the show is set look like when people stop pretending everything’s fine and start distrusting each other?
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• The authority is widely distrusted by most Palestinians and seen as corrupt by foes and some friends alike.
  — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
• In his sometimes raw testimony, Harry said the stream of negative stories about him and members of his family had led him to distrust even his closest friends.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024