How to Use betrayal in a Sentence

betrayal

noun

• And yet, in a way, held the guts and the heart of the whole betrayal.
  — Daniel Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• The chasms led to a loss of faith, a loss of trust, a sense of betrayal.
  — David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
• Everything in that song is true: the betrayals, the heartaches, the pain.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 26 July 2024
• There’s love and there’s betrayal, but there isn’t a great crime.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• These words, this faith in her, this betrayal of her, are the outcome.
  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2023
• What does seem to shock people are the lengths that some can go to get revenge for the betrayal.
  — Jann Blackstone, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
• But then, pointless betrayal is par for the course for these two.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• In its place is a sense of betrayal, shared by millions.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
• But Juliette manages to make it to the surface in the nick of time, fueled in part by the rage of betrayal.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
• His timbre is as much a betrayal as his taste for the carnal press of white and caramel skin.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
• Anything below that, would be a betrayal of the path he’s blazed alone.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• However, Ayub stole Doron’s gun and shot Omar in the back, killing him out of vengeance for his betrayal.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
• Twists, turns and betrayals abound when Ethan is framed for the deaths of his team and has the government after him.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 May 2025
• Some know the pain of getting cheated on and want to spare others that kind of betrayal.
  — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
• So the Campbells’ complaints were received on the Dawn as a betrayal of the cruiser’s code.
  — Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
• What are some things that happened that inspired the theme of betrayal?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
• Here are some heart-wrenching betrayals, both on the big and small screen, that made quite a huge impact.
  — Jacob Linden, Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
• The rubes in the trad lobby have been snookered—though their final betrayal is yet to come.
  — Ian Volner, Artforum, 28 May 2025
• Williams sought to do it through betrayals and lies, which sat with him uneasily.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
• Her then-boyfriend saw her decision to move on from QAnon as a betrayal.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 29 Jan. 2021
• At one point, Mitch even drunkenly floats the idea that the betrayal might turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
• Friends say that all his recent posts are about betrayal.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024
• Her then-boyfriend saw her decision to move on as a betrayal.
  — David Klepper, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• The sentiment is not so much one of betrayal but of concern.
  — Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 10 June 2024
• Speaking of Nick, June faces a lot of betrayal this season by certain men that she’s come to trust.
  — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
• This can sometimes lead to the end of a friendship if the revelation feels like a betrayal.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
• The body’s final betrayal, of course, is death, the subject of Cronenberg’s new film.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• So this past episode becomes kind of putting all the pieces together and dealing with the shock and betrayal of what’s happened to her.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
• Cheating on one’s spouse may be a betrayal of the heart, but in New York State, it’s long been a criminal offense.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• The tricky thing is that the Jackal, across the 10 episodes, does despicable acts of violence and betrayal in order to achieve his goal.
  — Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 19 June 2025