Example sentences for: betrays

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

  • Mértola bursts with history: Its church, the Igreja Matriz, betrays a previous incarnation as a mosque with a prayer niche (mihrab), while the town hall (now a museum) is constructed on Roman foundations.

  • Still, there's something parched in these paintings, where the air is crisp and even the bodies of water have a solidity of form and contour that recalls and betrays the influence of Poussin.

  • He concluded, "The frenzy with which he seeks to expand his empire betrays a realisation that it will not outlive him.

  • Thus the French île reminds us that the word was once spelled isle , from Latin insula; the name of the eight month, Août , reminds us that it came from the Latin augustus; and être betrays its origins as Latin esse with the same orthographical scar.

  • Even at the corners of the mouth, the phony smile betrays itself by being subtly lopsided: Involuntary expressions, arising in the lower, unitary brain, affect both sides of the mouth equally, but willed expressions are governed by the cerebral hemispheres, the dominant of which sends a stronger signal.


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