Example sentences for: betrays

How can you use “betrays” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That is: Rosen's writing and thinking betrays almost no familiarity with what is actually required to produce good journalism.

  • Even in praising his skill as an editor, she betrays the presence of its absence.

  • The New York Times ' front-page piece, which Today's Papers quotes, refers to the protesters' "sentiments"; the smug "Brainless in Seattle" headline in "TP" betrays a similar willful ostrich-pose.

  • Malcolm cannot resist her--he has a sweet tooth that forever betrays him--but he finds her oxymoronic style hard to bear.

  • The ignorance surrounding the Tasmanian languages betrays the fact that the relationships between convicts and later settlers and the Tasmanian Aborigines were of a hostility unreached elsewhere; the continuing fertility of Nyungar by contrast results from a much happier and more accommodating relationship.


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