Example sentences for: treason

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

  • He was not charged with treason.

  • A Turkish court found him guilty of treason for waging a bloody drive for Kurdish self-rule.

  • Of the 76 doges portrayed here, one is blackened out, Marino Faliero, beheaded for treason in 1355.

  • But Chambers had his own secrets and hidden motives--his pathological drive toward martyrdom, his homosexuality (the sin of sins in the Cold War era, routinely treated as a synonym for treason), and his undoubted obsession with Hiss.

  • Then came the accusation of treason in 1894 against the French army officer Alfred Dreyfus, who happened to be Jewish, and the subsequent division of French society into French nationalists convinced of Dreyfus' guilt and those equally convinced of his innocence.


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