How to Use betrayal in a Sentence

betrayal

noun

• Over time, this child grows up, learning that people can be unreliable, that things fall apart and that every bond carries the risk of betrayal.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• The film embraces heroism in the face of an oppressive regime, the strength of fraternal ties and the themes of love, betrayal, morality and hope.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
• Action, betrayal, secrets, romance and powerful women fighting for a throne all against the backdrop of a precolonial Philippine nation!
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The body’s final betrayal, of course, is death, the subject of Cronenberg’s new film.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That Pendergrass had opened for Gaye and clearly looked up to him made his success and his betrayal all the more painful for Marvin.
  — Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
• The act, which both Kall and Linda understand to be violent, is a betrayal of trust.
  — Talya Zax, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• Swift’s side argues that she was shut out of the sale of her masters in a betrayal that prevented her from bidding on the purchase.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
• But others on the right viewed such a letter as a betrayal that undermined their efforts to oust Moyle.
  — Daniel Walters, Idaho Statesman, 14 May 2024
• And the movie attempts something even more audacious, bringing in an infamous incident, a certain shout of betrayal from the crowd, that actually happened in the U.K. a year later.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024