break faith
Example Sentences
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Some professed that it caused them to break faith with the show.
From Salon • May 19, 2025
In Canada, we repeat the words of John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”: “If ye break faith with us who die . . .”
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2018
“Congress shouldn’t be in the business of helping big corporations at others’ expense,” he said in a statement, “and it certainly shouldn’t break faith with Native American communities.”
From MSNBC • Jul. 31, 2015
“If ye break faith with us who die/We shall not sleep, though poppies grow/In Flanders fields.”
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2014
Naturally they didn’t want to pay me before, for fear I might break faith with them and buy in the system for Mr. Seymour.”
From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.
