How to Use treason in a Sentence

treason

noun
  • He is guilty of treason.
  • Smith was in and out of jail as a public nuisance and, at the end, for treason.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Trump views the truth as treason and truth-tellers as traitors.
    TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2020
  • He was freed on bail in April while facing treason charges.
    Yinka Ibukun, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Ben is heard as the voice of reason (or treason, who knows?) throughout the trailer.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Both were called to serve, very briefly, in the Tang court; Li Bai was later found guilty of treason and exiled.
    Madeleine Thien, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The secret meetings, he in heavy disguise, in the years of his treason trial.
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Did the founders intend for the pardon power to be used in cases of treason?
    Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018
  • Within the day, he was impeached and detained on charges of treason.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 28 Dec. 2022
  • If found guilty of treason, Jalingo could face a life sentence in prison.
    Time Staff, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a very good reason for that: The bar for treason is really high.
    German Lopez, Vox, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Last month, a court in Ukraine sentenced him to 14 years in prison in absentia on charges of treason.
    Artem Grudinin, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Promising to do so in the event of a shooting war would be an offer to commit treason.
    The Editors, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021
  • But Skrzypski, who is charged with treason, still faces up to 20 years in prison if he's found guilty.
    Stephen Wright, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • For four years, Trump has worked to equate disagreement with treason.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Though the war was far from over, many brave patriots signed the document at the risk of being held for treason against the crown.
    Arkansas Online, 18 Apr. 2021
  • This year, he was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
    Dasha Litvinova, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Hitler slunk out of town and was later arrested and tried for treason.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • At Bugas’ request, the charge was increased to treason, which carried the death penalty.
    Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The only American charged with treason against the U.S.
    Michael Tarm, ajc, 13 July 2021
  • One was arrested in Russia in 2016 and jailed on treason charges.
    Irina Reznik, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Manning could have been — and in previous ages, might well have been — hanged for such treason.
    Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
  • The only fate worse than jail time for treason is plantar fasciitis.
    Outside Online, 22 July 2022
  • But treason is even more bitter if the traitor is a personal friend and protégé like Prigozhin.
    Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Well, it's- it is- he's been charged with abuse of power, which is not treason, which is not bribery, which is not a high crime and misdemeanor.
    CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Philip’s father, who was working in the army, was accused of treason and exiled.
    Katie Frost, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Thomas Usk was charged with treason, and his head rolled a mere day after his trial began.
    Aron Ravin, National Review, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Then Morsi was placed inside a cage in a courtroom, where he was tried for murder and treason.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
  • When he is caught, Ernst becomes the first Swiss person to be sentenced to death for espionage and treason.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Soon after Stafford was convicted of treason, the king acquired the castle and turned it into his retreat instead.
    Allix Cott, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024

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