Example sentences for: betraying

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

  • Some conservatives have attempted to associate Flytrap with the political and cultural values of the 1960s--let it all hang out and so on--though they also have insisted that feminists are betraying feminism's roots in the same period by failing to condemn the male perpetrator.

  • Would John feel I was betraying his trust, given his Kennedyesque obsession with privacy?

  • 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.

  • Prince Siegfried promises her that love, but he is seduced into betraying that promise by the beautiful, but not so nice, Odile.

  • The modest Muslim veil is in fact betraying its ancient and honorable reluctance to take on the aggressive flavor of fanaticism.


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