Example sentences for: betraying

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

  • Let's not forget that Toobin, the man who now decries the baleful influence of book deals, first made his mark betraying Iran-Contra special counsel Lawrence Walsh, for whom he worked as a lawyer, by quitting to publish a book about the case before it was even over!

  • In a front-page comment in Milan's Corriere della Sera, columnist Ennio Caretto spoke up for Clinton's presidential record, saying he had corrected the capitalist excesses of Reaganism and that, although he stood accused of betraying the liberal traditions of the Democrats, he had at least--by moving to the center--kept the Right in Congress at bay.

  • The massive cover book review praises Justice Antonin Scalia for changing the course of American jurisprudence from "common-law constitutionalism" to "originalism," then blasts him for betraying his own principles: Scalia has abandoned neutrality and now decides cases based on his own political views.

  • In both cases there is the society in a state of collapse, the government tottering dizzily from crisis to crisis, and the people increasingly gripped by resentment and rage against a West they blame for abandoning, betraying, and exploiting them.

  • Orrin Hatch of Utah was betraying his party by co-sponsoring a health-care reform bill with Ted Kennedy.


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