betray

Example Sentences

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“I feel betrayed by my country,” he explained in language similar to what he would use on stage a short time later.

From Salon

Believers hissed, certain that the former celebrity medium was being paid to betray the spirits.

From Literature

I was betraying Gran and spinning her memory away all at once.

From Literature

Her Alawi identity rendered her especially useful as a revolutionary courier; police never imagined her capable of betraying the regime.

From Los Angeles Times

Team owner Lawrence Stroll looked like the bottom had fallen out of his world as he stalked the paddock in Bahrain, his face betraying a combination of anger and despair.

From BBC