How to Use betray in a Sentence

betray

verb

• She is very loyal and would never betray a friend.
• She coughed, betraying her presence behind the door.
• She betrayed her own people by supporting the enemy.
• They betrayed their country by selling its secrets to other governments.
• But then, just on the back half of 2022, her back legs started to betray her.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• All of those runs will go into the book as earned but Burnes has been betrayed by his defense.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• But, early in the third set, Alcaraz’s body betrayed him: his arm cramped, then his legs.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Above, a dark disk hangs where the Sun once was, a brilliant circle at its edges betraying hints of the Sun’s light.
  — Science Near Me, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• But, otherwise, the Con betrayed little in the way of moral outrage.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• In the Vietnam war, Afghan Pathans would have been ideal troops but in wars fought against Moslems would have betrayed us.
  — Matt Schoenfeldt, National Review, 10 Dec. 2023
• But March has not been kind to the Beavers, who are 6-7 in the month and have been betrayed by different things at different times.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
• Yet sadly, the United States has betrayed the common sense of the common good.
  — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Yet the fate of universality resides not in the hands of those who betray it.
  — Agnès Callamard, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2024
• Rich rejects the quiet life, betrays More and is rewarded with a post in Wales.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• That all of this is happening in full sight of the world makes many Palestinians in Gaza feel alone—even betrayed.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• Murtha said this week that his client felt betrayed by the former governor.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• If not, what would betraying my beloved Giants say about me?
  — Steven Leckart, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• In some groups, the attacks were already being blamed on the IDF for having betrayed Netanyahu.
  — Darren Loucaides, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• Sinner walked off the court messy and tussled, his face betraying the self-doubt common to losers.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• There will be losers in all of this, including those tasked with looking in the mirror and betrayed Tour players.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• Paul’s sure hands have all but secured his spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame, but those same hands have also betrayed him.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2024
• This time, accuracy betrayed her on a night when age and injury showed in her legs.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• The five-octave pianos, especially, can betray you, leave you in the dust.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• The dog, betraying Cleveland’s famed Dawg Pound, knocks a football header-style into the Rams box.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Her good friend had an affair with her husband, and Twain and the friend’s husband bonded over being betrayed.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2023
• Every single one of us should have expected to have been set up, betrayed, backstabbed (and) drowned in the toilet.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• And people have a lot of right to feel betrayed by the companies that threw money at podcasting just to drop it a few years later.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2023
• Being betrayed in these types of relationships isn't something that can be healed overnight, and that's okay.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 16 May 2023
• Sofia comes in, the idea of being repressed having never occurred to her, and rocks Celie’s perception of self so much so that Celie betrays her.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
• Selling meant betraying the movement, and the movement was what mattered most.
  — Rebecca Angelo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024