Example sentences for: betrayals

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

  • We will use any means necessary to achieve this end, including competition, both fair and unfair, wholesale buying up of potential rivals, strategic partnerships and alliances, strategic betrayals of partners and allies, theft, bribery, murder, and, if necessary, putting out a high-quality product.

  • Compare those Watergate betrayals with the watered-down subversion of Stephanopoulos and Panetta, which amounted to saying on television what was obvious--that Clinton is in trouble unless he explains himself soon--and you would conclude that loyalty has been on the rise since the Nixon years.

  • After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.

  • 26 "Dispatch" that Linda Tripp's bugging of Monica Lewinsky "is among the worst personal betrayals I can imagine--much worse, in moral if not in legal terms, than anything Clinton is accused of doing."

  • In the process he has become what, say, Arthur Koestler or George Orwell was in another time and place: one of those emblematic intellectuals whose career illustrates in microcosm the dilemmas, temptations, and betrayals of an era.


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