Example sentences for: back-stabbing

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

  • The idea of spoofing the superficial, back-stabbing world of teen pageants seems funny to most critics, but all agree that the execution is abysmal.

  • His rise to power is a tale of back-stabbing and machinations.

  • His efforts to insinuate himself were so relentless that Cary Reich, the author of this sprawling new biography (and of an earlier biography of the financier André Meyer), refers to his subject as a "patrician Sammy Glick" (though he never reaches the heights of heeldom demonstrated by the hero of Budd Schulberg's novel about pre-war Hollywood back-stabbing).

  • In fact, the sole purpose of his piece was to continue the media assault on Tripp as some kind of back-stabbing dragon lady whom we should all view with disgust and loathing.

  • The article mentions a couple of recent, highly visible financial scandals but does not allot space to the back-stabbing political environment that is thought to have helped them surface.


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