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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Anyone who's been ghosted can relate to that kind of pain and betrayal.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 8 July 2024
  • From the first page, you’re plunged into a world of opulence, betrayal, and suspense.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • But, of course, Scott’s betrayal is a small episode in the collapse of decency and any sense of shame that Trump’s lordship demands of his acolytes.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But, in a tragic betrayal, he was killed by Hank’s Chechen henchmen in Sunday’s episode.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
  • There is an act of betrayal, and an eventual plan of escape.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • But many, like Kinzinger, saw the Bannon interview as a betrayal.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2025
  • For people who had believed in Abiy’s early promise, the videos felt like a betrayal.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022

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