Example sentences for: betray

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

  • What gives this version its kick--and what has made it fodder for columnists for almost six months--is that the people who betray the whistle-blower are among the most famous and powerful journalists in America: Mike Wallace and Don Hewitt, the co-anchor and the executive producer of 60 Minutes . If they could be pressured to "spike" a segment that they knew to be true, the film implicitly asks, how much chance do others have of breaking stories about corporate wrongdoing?

  • Soon, my garden will betray me.

  • Emotion will betray character every time, and education is power.

  • Other essays include: "Edible Ecriture," by British Marxist Terry Eagleton, which argues that Samuel Beckett's anorexic prose may betray "a race memory of the Irish famine"; and "Savouring the Antique," by classicist Emily Gower, which warns against romanticizing the Roman bacchanalia, since "most ordinary people experienced famine and lived at subsistence level."

  • But this is to desert, even betray, his subject.


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