Examples of turncoat in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web For a long time, Serena swayed back and forth between cruel accomplice and potential turncoat. — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 26 May 2021 The bill picked up three Democratic votes in the Senate (including eventual veto-override turncoat Senator Paul Lowe) and eight Democratic votes in the House. — Terry Stoops, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was also one of Trump’s most reliable backers and defenders; he, too, is being attacked as a turncoat. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021 Such a breach of trust would be almost as bad as a turncoat anti-Biden mole seeking to resist presidential directives. — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 24 Dec. 2020 Chow and his volunteers scoffed at his efforts to pitch himself as a moderate and said his running mate, once a radical political student, was a turncoat. — Timothy Mclaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020 Amy Kennedy, whose father-in-law is Ted Kennedy, is vying to oust turncoat Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Nov. 3. — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2020 After all, hardly a news cycle goes by these days without at least one dynastic turncoat or class defector breaking ranks. — Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 4 Aug. 2020 But Lundergan's defense lawyers slammed Hurst as a turncoat for turning on his former mentor to avoid prosecution. — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2020

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