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
The English writer Vera Brittain wrote, “at a certain point the living have to break faith with the dead.”
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2012
As mulish as the girl Hill, he refused to release Mrs. Gower from her oath; finally, in fiery wrath declaring there would be a heavy breach of promise case, did she break faith.
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg
