How to Use betray in a Sentence

betray

verb

• She is very loyal and would never betray a friend.
• She coughed, betraying her presence behind the door.
• She betrayed her own people by supporting the enemy.
• They betrayed their country by selling its secrets to other governments.
• This season gave her rich moments as both betrayed and betrayer.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• What Pence did on January 6 was keep his oath, rather than betray it.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021
• Lala is dealing with something that’s there that Franks clearly isn’t, which is betrayal, feeling betrayed.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 9 Dec. 2024
• Then suddenly, with a bloodcurdling roar the cunning beast made another rush at me—a ruse to betray me into action.
  — Field & Stream, 12 Dec. 2020
• Social media such as Facebook and Instagram can betray many details of our lives.
  — David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• Zurek has brainstormed ways that even these pipsqueaks could betray their presence by influencing the behavior of groups of particles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
• But her beguiling illusion of soft leather rendered as hard sculpture doesn’t betray any photographic subject matter.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
• Then comes Holy Wednesday, which acknowledges Judas's plan to betray Jesus.
  — Juliana Labianca, Good Housekeeping, 11 Jan. 2021
• But first, Lord John probably needs to focus on William, who feels utterly betrayed by the lie of his paternity.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
• In Smith’s parable, art inscribes an intimate way of seeing—and Bowles, the tempter, leads writers to betray that vision for quick hits of affirmation.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
• If a conservator can’t yet see the effects of the fungus visually, perhaps the microbe’s DNA could betray its presence.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 25 Nov. 2020
• The final four characters, meanwhile, betray the device’s model, color and storage capacity.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Robbie, Kinnaman, Courtney and Davis return with a gaggle of new supervillain characters ready to betray and kill each other.
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2021
• If not Arnold van den Bergh, who did betray the Franks?
  — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
• His daughter grows up and falls for the son of the man the king thought his wife betrayed him for.
  — Mike Deehan, Axios, 12 July 2024
• But then, just on the back half of 2022, her back legs started to betray her.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Would my smile, with its crooked teeth, betray me as just a kid?
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2021
• Six years into the war, Mr. Putin turned the chief mufti of Chechnya to betray the rebel cause.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• So the gist of this story so far is that Ohtani’s close friend betrayed him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• At such moments, the sky would betray signs of pale blue behind the gray.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• Bernard warns her that one of her team will betray her, that one of them did not come back from the mission the same.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• When things seem to start changing for the better, he is betrayed and escapes to the city.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
• But all that matters is that there be no change in the Fed’s stance, and there have been no numbers that have betrayed the Fed.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
• All of those runs will go into the book as earned but Burnes has been betrayed by his defense.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• But, early in the third set, Alcaraz’s body betrayed him: his arm cramped, then his legs.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The villagers know they have been betrayed, not least by themselves.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024