How to Use treason in a Sentence

treason

noun

• He is guilty of treason.
• Smith was in and out of jail as a public nuisance and, at the end, for treason.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• Trump views the truth as treason and truth-tellers as traitors.
  — TheWeek, 27 Jan. 2020
• He was freed on bail in April while facing treason charges.
  — Yinka Ibukun, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Ben is heard as the voice of reason (or treason, who knows?) throughout the trailer.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• The secret meetings, he in heavy disguise, in the years of his treason trial.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Did the founders intend for the pardon power to be used in cases of treason?
  — Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018
• Within the day, he was impeached and detained on charges of treason.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 28 Dec. 2022
• If found guilty of treason, Jalingo could face a life sentence in prison.
  — Time Staff, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
• There’s a very good reason for that: The bar for treason is really high.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 19 Dec. 2018
• Last month, a court in Ukraine sentenced him to 14 years in prison in absentia on charges of treason.
  — Artem Grudinin, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• Promising to do so in the event of a shooting war would be an offer to commit treason.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021
• But Skrzypski, who is charged with treason, still faces up to 20 years in prison if he's found guilty.
  — Stephen Wright, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
• For four years, Trump has worked to equate disagreement with treason.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Though the war was far from over, many brave patriots signed the document at the risk of being held for treason against the crown.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Apr. 2021
• This year, he was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
  — Dasha Litvinova, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• Hitler slunk out of town and was later arrested and tried for treason.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• At Bugas’ request, the charge was increased to treason, which carried the death penalty.
  — Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2024
• One was arrested in Russia in 2016 and jailed on treason charges.
  — Irina Reznik, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2022
• Manning could have been — and in previous ages, might well have been — hanged for such treason.
  — Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
• The only fate worse than jail time for treason is plantar fasciitis.
  — Outside Online, 22 July 2022
• But treason is even more bitter if the traitor is a personal friend and protégé like Prigozhin.
  — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
• Well, it's- it is- he's been charged with abuse of power, which is not treason, which is not bribery, which is not a high crime and misdemeanor.
  — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2020
• Philip’s father, who was working in the army, was accused of treason and exiled.
  — Katie Frost, Town & Country, 9 Apr. 2021
• Thomas Usk was charged with treason, and his head rolled a mere day after his trial began.
  — Aron Ravin, National Review, 15 Aug. 2021
• Then Morsi was placed inside a cage in a courtroom, where he was tried for murder and treason.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• But writing this op-ed piece, in no way meets the definition of treason.
  — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• She was later placed under house arrest for nearly eight and a half months and charged with treason.
  — Tenzin Shakya, ABC News, 3 June 2022
• Kara-Murza was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2024
• Three representatives were removed in 1861 on charges of treason at the start of the Civil War.
  — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024