Example sentences for: betrays

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

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

  • That is: Rosen's writing and thinking betrays almost no familiarity with what is actually required to produce good journalism.

  • But in a chapter entitled—make that titled— Americanisms, the manual betrays both an unseemly nationalistic bias and an ignorance of the history of its own language.

  • Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.

  • The New York Times ' front-page piece, which Today's Papers quotes, refers to the protesters' "sentiments"; the smug "Brainless in Seattle" headline in "TP" betrays a similar willful ostrich-pose.


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