How to Use backstabbing in a Sentence

backstabbing

noun

• She was hurt by her former friend's backstabbing.
• At least Tabitha and Moe are there to support Elodie in the very meta backstabbing.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• And, for better or for worse, there was no backstabbing among the bakers.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• Trump’s inner circle is like the Court of the Borgias, full of intrigue and backstabbing.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2017
• And after a decade of backstabbing, greed, and bloodshed, their lives — and pop culture — would never be the same.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Let’s hope that doesn’t mean the show will up its backstabbing quota next season; after all, that’s not what fans of The Bold Type are there for.
  — Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Her book is seamy, full of score-settling, gossip and backstabbing.
  — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• There’s no backstabbing between them; there’s a lot of honesty.
  — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2023
• But despite a plot full of backstabbing and infidelities, the movie is just that: a machine.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2022
• There’s plenty of backstabbing, broken hearts and cat fights.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• For those who love Survivor but don't care for the backstabbing, Alone is your best alternative.
  — Sophie Van Bastelaer, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2023
• That way, when the new regime comes in together at the same time, the Jaguars would have a better chance in 2022 at a drama-free and backstabbing-free environment.
  — Gene Frenette, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2022
• But what if the environment came with less backstabbing and more beer-drinking?
  — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 8 Jan. 2018
• There's a comedic element that keeps things fresh as the group works through fake friendships and literal backstabbing.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 July 2022
• If anything, the infighting among his staff and anonymous backstabbing in the press has only worsened as the stakes have risen higher.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 10 Feb. 2017
• Yes, there are insults aplenty, and the requisite amount of backstabbing.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• The game play and backstabbing feels more transparent this season than usual.
  — Joseph Longo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2021
• The front office was known for a culture of leaks and backstabbing, and McDaniels and Caserio believed that better offers would come their way.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2020
• On the surface, it’s all backstabbing and table-flipping—a show filled with tiny dogs and massive diamonds.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Town & Country, 5 May 2021
• None of the ugliness of Worlds Apart or Kaoh Rong permeated the proceedings, even amongst all the lying and backstabbing.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 May 2020
• Hopefully, next week, the stakes will feel higher, and there will be some delicious backstabbing.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• There is just ambition, backstabbing and a mean streak of bullying.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
• The Romans passed down to us many treasures, from their games to distract the mob, to their ruthless backstabbing politics, architecture and the law.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2021
• Groveland seems to be a city where backstabbing is an art form practiced by the very bored, but this reaches way beyond simple meddling.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2017
• With a lot of intrigue and figurative backstabbing, the film can be seen as a sort of allegoric depiction of Julius Caesar's death.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 15 Mar. 2018
• The Trump White House itself has been riven by infighting and backstabbing, resulting in dozens of high-profile leaks and scathing news stories.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 6 Feb. 2017
• Mary Trump is the author of a tell-all book on the Trump family, portraying it as dysfunctional and plagued by a focus on backstabbing and money.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021
• The amount of scheming, backstabbing, plotting, and gossiping that goes down on East 61st Street and 5th Avenue is plentiful, as are the characters.
  — Tanya Christian, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2022
• His downfall came amid a storm of corporate turnover and backstabbing, and Yetnikoff’s personal chaos.
  — Hillel Italie, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
• The struggle for the new casino is more trouble than Ryan could have imagined, bringing up old mob ties, unknown family history, backstabbings, battles of ego, and plenty of misunderstandings from the rumor mill among Vegas’s major players.
  — Theo Faherty, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024