How to Use distrust in a Sentence

distrust

1 of 2 noun

• He has a distrust of doctors.
• Let’s talk about what trust and distrust looks like for us.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
• The lounge launch comes at a time of deep distrust in credit cards.
  — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2026
• But distrust within the sport has reached levels not seen for a while.
  — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
• His dislike and distrust of Nicole boiled over.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
• His story isn’t the only one tripped up by distrust.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Feb. 2026
• And there’s reason for distrust.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
• And the roots of Black distrust in health care go back well before that.
  — Bill Novelli, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• Or, perhaps, our distrust of the state that might be hiding things from us.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Alamo has not been subtle about his distrust toward Rue.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026
• 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
• Actions like this mass seizure risk sowing seeds of distrust in the election process.
  — Irene Wright, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
• The bigger story is a hiring process built on distrust.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
• The result is an unhealthy distrust.
  — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
• But the Epstein files didn’t create this distrust.
  — Kaitlyn Buss, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
• The couple shared a social class and a smug distrust of anyone outside it.
  — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
• Similarly, there is no fast track to healing years of hurt and distrust.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
• Although a space for dialogue has opened, the distrust has hardly gone away.
  — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• But some experts say the increasing backlash over the slow vote count sows distrust.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
• The first is distrust, hence the prevalence of a flat, over-it style that wouldn’t dare rise to the level of caring.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
• In both, distrust tracks with lived experience.
  — Tyler Evans, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
• Our politics is broken, marked by anger, contempt and distrust.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2023
• And outright bans on AI tools could cement a culture of distrust.
  — WIRED, 26 Jan. 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
• Justifiably or not, that distrust has spread throughout many of the high-flying tech names.
  — Jay Woods, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
• Carr has argued that polls showing widespread distrust of the media support his stance.
  — Reuters, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
• At the same time, polarization and distrust are rising.
  — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• What results is a cat-and-mouse game between the three groups, ripe with betrayal, distrust and tension.
  — Itzel Luna, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025

distrust

2 of 2 verb

• She's always distrusted their promises.
• Take down too much and users will begin to distrust the platform.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 19 Aug. 2022
• This is not about trusting or distrusting this new tool.
  — Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• Many of his supporters have been primed to distrust any vote that doesn’t go his way.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2022
• That gap was partly attributed to distrust sowed by decades of abuse.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• But our culture now distrusts that kind of leadership.
  — Jonathan Alpert Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
• By this point Wang was distrusted by many people close to Ray, sources say.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• And yet many in this country still distrust science and scientists.
  — Kai Bird, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
• The lesson is not that leaders should distrust their own importance.
  — Michael Sonnenfeldt, Fortune, 19 July 2026
• Lloyd over-eggs the dread, distrusting your ability to get subtext.
  — Vulture, 9 Mar. 2023
• The bears will go back to citing narrow leadership as a reason to distrust the bullish trend.
  — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
• And if one or more of these aren’t met, should one distrust the algorithm altogether?
  — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
• 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
• How had so many people on his medical staff seemingly come to distrust science and medicine?
  — Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 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
• There’s the angry, distrusting career staff.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Mar. 2026
• Schiff never quite knows whether to admire or distrust the elusive yet ubiquitous Adams.
  — Alan Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• Teams don't choose to distrust incongruent leaders; their nervous systems make that choice for them.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Fear had led different groups of Americans to distrust and even hate one another.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• But many Afghans distrust the Taliban and fear that their rule will be violent and oppressive.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 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
• Well, Americans have been taught to distrust the one party that can deliver the goods, the Democrats.
  — Kevin Morrow, The Week, 28 Feb. 2022
• This is not about distrusting technology or refusing to evolve.
  — Kevin Brady, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• The founders distrusted a system based on the popular vote, fearing many citizens would not be well-informed.
  — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Players continued to voice outrage and distrust toward the league throughout the weekend.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• Last but probably not least, many journalists distrust the New York Post.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
• Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Reserve isn’t distrusted so much as unknown.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 May 2026