BETRAYAL in a Sentence

Learn BETRAYAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

217 example sentences for BETRAYAL, such as:

1. He betrayed his party and country.
2. He betrayed all his friends on his own account.
3. For years they had been betraying state secrets to Russia.
4. His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
5. The wretch used to requite his benefactors by betraying them.

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 Meanings and Examples of BETRAYAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
betrayal
 n.  an act of deliberate betrayal
 n.  the quality of aiding an enemy
Classic Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
1  I could not have borne to lose the smallest portion of her sisterly affection; yet, in that betrayal, I should have set a constraint between us hitherto unknown.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
2  One party, to which Katavasov belonged, saw in the opposite party a scoundrelly betrayal and treachery, while the opposite party saw in them childishness and lack of respect for the authorities.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 3
3  In the morning, Catherine learnt my betrayal of her confidence, and she learnt also that her secret visits were to end.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  Smiling as changelessly as an ivory figurine she sat quiescent, avoiding thought, glancing about the living-room and hall, noting their betrayal of unimaginative commercial prosperity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Hardly a maternal heart within the four seas could in such circumstances, have helped being irritated at that ill-timed betrayal of feeling for a new woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
6  And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their betrayal of the Bourbon cause.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
7  Because, perhaps, of the betraying sentimentality that lurks in all of us Southerners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  She always fancied him expressing or betraying in some way his love for her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
9  No exclamation of surprise escaped the father, nor was any question asked, or reply given, for several minutes; each appearing to await the moment when he might speak, without betraying womanish curiosity or childish impatience.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
10  He even suffered their hands to meet, without betraying the least emotion, or varying his riveted attitude of attention.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
11  However revolting a proposal of such a character might prove to Cora, she retained, notwithstanding her powerful disgust, sufficient self-command to reply, without betraying the weakness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
12  But, unwilling to alarm the fears of Alice, she evaded a direct reply, betraying only by her anxious looks fastened on the slightest movements of her captors.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
13  The Mohican appeared to comprehend the nature of the attempt his friend had made, intuitively, neither tongue nor feature betraying another symptom of surprise.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
14  The Delaware warriors started at the well-known name, betraying by their amazement, that they now learned, for the first time, one so famous among the Indian allies of France was within their power.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
15  He could not come among us without betraying his sympathy for us, and, stupid as we were, we had the sagacity to see it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  What they are doing to our military, our treasury, our power, and our prestige is an unconscionable national betrayal.
2  And for a play about murder, treachery, betrayal, death, violence, and justice, this is not a bad location to summon those ancient spirits.
3  Black is the darkest betrayal, forgiveness Who Loved the pain.
4  His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
5  It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about.
6  Nothing Jason did could mitigate Medea's anger; she refused to forgive him for betraying her.
7  The wretch used to requite his benefactors by betraying them.
8  As far as he was concerned there was no question of betraying his own comrades.
9  For years they had been betraying state secrets to Russia.
10  He betrayed all his friends on his own account.
11  The rogue blew upon the scheme and so betrayed his partner to the police.
12  She was determined to avenge herself on the man who had betrayed her.
13  The rogue blew on the scheme and so betrayed his partner to the police.
14  He betrayed his party and country.
15  The reform candidate kept to denounce the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust.