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.
• How sad to see the media betray that calling and divide us to prop up a warped, dishonest ideology.
  — Peter Bronson, The Enquirer, 8 Apr. 2021
• Most importantly – lead by example and don’t betray your values.
  — Abdo Riani, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
• Also, Rachel thinks Genevieve is gunning for her, and Teeny is pissed at Genevieve for betraying her.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
• If Brown’s trade demand added any urgency, DeCosta did not betray it.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Their visit got lots of coverage, as many on social media felt betrayed and accused Joe and Mika of selling out.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
• To a small party, the offer is extraordinary, but joining with the left would betray Yamina voters.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2021
• During the dinner, Jesus revealed that one of the apostles would betray him and introduced the practice of the Eucharist.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
• Patients feel betrayed and traumatized due to their belongings being removed, often without notice.
  — Fabiola Arbelo Cruz, Caroline Dumont, Emma Lo, Annie Harper, Billy Bromage and Lori Wallace, Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 2024
• Young women should not be forced to share private spaces — including showers and dorm rooms — with men, and a religious institution should not be forced to betray its religious beliefs.
  — Jerry C. Davis, National Review, 27 Apr. 2021
• Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ 12 disciples, is pointed out by Jesus as the one who will betray him.
  — al, 1 Apr. 2021
• If not Arnold van den Bergh, who did betray the Franks?
  — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
• His daughter grows up and falls for the son of the man the king thought his wife betrayed him for.
  — Mike Deehan, Axios, 12 July 2024
• But then, just on the back half of 2022, her back legs started to betray her.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Would my smile, with its crooked teeth, betray me as just a kid?
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2021
• Six years into the war, Mr. Putin turned the chief mufti of Chechnya to betray the rebel cause.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• So the gist of this story so far is that Ohtani’s close friend betrayed him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• At such moments, the sky would betray signs of pale blue behind the gray.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• Bernard warns her that one of her team will betray her, that one of them did not come back from the mission the same.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• When things seem to start changing for the better, he is betrayed and escapes to the city.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
• But all that matters is that there be no change in the Fed’s stance, and there have been no numbers that have betrayed the Fed.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The villagers know they have been betrayed, not least by themselves.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024