How to Use traitor in a Sentence

traitor

noun
  • She has been called a traitor to the liberal party's cause.
  • He was a traitor who betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the enemy.
  • But Nam's life as a traitor seems shaky at best.
    Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Sounds to me like there’s an inside traitor.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
  • These deranged traitors will face the full force of law.
    Caroline Wilburn, Houston Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2026
  • He was shunned by his homeland and called a traitor.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • Mark Levin has been calling me a traitor.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Also, this is the story of three traitors.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That role long prompted some to see her as a traitor to her people.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • In other words, had become a traitor.
    Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026
  • The aim is to find the traitors, with one player voted out each day.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • There are even a few ape traitors helping out the Colonel’s race war.
    Chris Nashawaty, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2017
  • Twenty-three stars will try to deduce who the traitors are among them.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Throw him right under the bus and be the solo traitor at the end, damn.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The government put me on a deck of cards, called it a deck of traitors.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Exposed on all sides, a hero to some can be seen as a traitor to others.
    Michael Warren, ajc, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Unless there’s a traitor in the midst, in which case, that player wins.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The traitor can of course cause all kinds of clandestine havoc here.
    Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Rinna’s last act as a traitor was to murder a faithful in plain sight.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Wouldn’t a savvy leader like Negan just end a traitor then and there?
    Nick Statt, The Verge, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Which player was recruited to be a new traitor?
    Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The dead man, 45-year-old banker Denys Kiryeyev, was killed as a traitor.
    Brett Forrest, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Viewers know who the traitors are, but the rest of the cast, called Faithful, do not.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Viewers know who the traitors are, but the rest of the cast, called Faithful, do not.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
  • He was called an embarrassment to the country and a traitor to his race.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2020
  • Rinna was selected as one of the traitors on the show, but she was voted off.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For its part, Hamas says Abu Shabab is a traitor and a gangster.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 8 June 2025
  • Who is most likely to turn one of the Avengers into a traitor, just for the evil fun of it?
    Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The black left has been calling Justice Thomas a race traitor for decades.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2020
  • And then at night a mischievous traitor that will be murdering people.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026

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