How to Use treachery in a Sentence

treachery

noun

• The Seattle Times was right about the whole treachery part!
  — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 13 Feb. 2018
• But what the file also revealed was a long trail of treachery.
  — Lynell George, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• Pence refuses to learn from the treachery of the people around him.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
• But treachery in the court of Sultan Suleiman (Lachy Hulme) breaks up that party.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
• Even within the treacheries plotted by the villain, Don John, Tedesco keeps the tone light and airy.
  — nola.com, 19 June 2019
• If war is hell, this is its ninth circle, the circle of treachery.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
• Putin, however, saw it as proof of the West’s treachery.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2022
• The judge said at the time that factors such as cruelty and treachery had not been proven.
  — Jim Gomez, Star Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020
• But the depth of the Loyalists’ treacheries appalled him.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• This is a level of treachery that knocks Lucy nearly as much as William.
  — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• The Wrights never blamed Allen for his brothers’ treachery.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2022
• For protesters in Greece, any sharing of the M-word is treachery.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Not only that, Sonny’s the national coach of the year for his treachery.
  — Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Yet, all through this treachery and mayhem, the audience is just about on the floor with laughter.
  — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 22 Aug. 2017
• The move left him with a lingering taint of treachery in the eyes of some Conservatives.
  — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
• As much talk as there is about treachery and deceit, the most valuable skill on The Traitors is deflection.
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2024
• This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
  — Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• Some viewed him with a quizzical brow — a fair response given the treachery of dating.
  — Reina Abrevaya, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• McConnell’s treachery at that pivotal moment has been hashed over at length since the Post first broke the story.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 13 July 2017
• Despite the violence and treachery, the suffering and vengeance, there is a final scene of hope, even a touch of joy.
  — Chris Offutt, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• Joe Maddon took the blame for Gallo’s treachery, which, yes, was genius.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2021
• Hovhannisyan, as a pure-hearted, tragic Siegfried, was the focus of Odile’s treachery and, in the end, the force that triumphed over evil.
  — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2018
• Such letters have since become a symbol of the female treachery that can damage a man as deeply as the wartime loss of life or limb.
  — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• One daughter couldn't resist, however, and lost her arm to the treachery of monsters and men.
  — Shannon Gibney, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• But Litvinenko’s real crime, in the eyes of the Kremlin, was treachery, not terrorism.
  — Edward Lucas, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2016
• The chickens come home to roost in Fargo’s finale, bringing to a close a season of treachery and murder.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2020
• Lanthimos ridicules mankind’s treachery in films that, scene by scene, are not provocative, just crass.
  — Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2024
• New Hampshire is a flat, 1-mile track with treachery in every corner.
  — Matt Crossman, charlotteobserver, 13 July 2017
• Drunken shouts, parochial boasts, empty words cannot conceal the treachery.
  — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• There is treachery in nostalgia, shame in a nation’s sins.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024