Example sentences for: treason

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

  • The English queen kept her cousin in captivity for 20 years and finally had her beheaded on a trumped-up charge of treason.

  • And as recently as 1994, the government jailed for treason politicians who expressed mild pro-Kurdish sentiments.

  • The old town of cobbled streets is dominated by the 17th-century town hall, home of the Távora family until the Marquês de Pombal had them all executed on a trumped-up charge of treason.

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

  • More surprisingly, there is not a single mention of the most important public event for Degas during the 1890s, the Dreyfus affair, when Degas didn't just look like a dog but behaved like one, cutting off Jewish friends of long standing and adamantly insisting (along with Paul Cézanne and Renoir) on the guilt of the Jewish army officer falsely accused of treason.


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