How to Use high treason in a Sentence

high treason

noun

• The conspirators were hanged for high treason.
• He has been declared a suspect in a case of high treason.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2023
• Yanukovych fled to Russia and is wanted in Ukraine on charges of high treason.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• To be untrue to thyself, youth!, that is the highest treason.
  — Monica Ali, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2017
• In 2019, he was sentenced to death in absentia for high treason.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
• Kara-Murza is also charged with high treason — no less than high treason.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Feb. 2023
• Is the impeachment process something that should be reserved for the gravest kinds of offenses, high treason and the like?
  — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
• Resistance to this act was considered high treason, and the heads of its opponents, like Thomas More’s, would roll.
  — History Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
• In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for high treason.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• Germany's criminal code includes the crime of high treason.
  — Jefferson Chase, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2018
• Musharraf is sentenced to death in absentia for high treason.
  — CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
• Poroshenko appeared in court later Monday on charges of high treason and supporting terrorism, but by late in the evening in Kyiv, the court had not issued a ruling.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2022
• His speech and actions drew the ire of the country’s military leaders, who accused Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun of high treason and tried to replace him as their ambassador.
  — Dom Calicchio, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2022
• In 1649, England’s King Charles I was executed for high treason.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• In medieval England, King Henry V decreed that any attack on a bearer of one would be treated as high treason.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• Niels Bohr called Einstein’s attitude appalling and accused him of high treason.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
• The former leader was last month sentenced to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
• Sharif was re-elected and initiated high treason charges against Musharraf for his actions of 2007.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Feb. 2023
• On May 4, the London government and royal officials charged 278 men, women and children with high treason.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• At least two different calls had warned of a coming police raid at TV Rain; after the site was blocked, the false alarms regarding police seemed like a warning shot—leave or face arrest and charges of high treason.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2022
• Ukraine’s top prosecutor later accused Mr. Medvedchuk of high treason, and a court placed him under house arrest.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
• This is most effective with true insiders (Christopher Liddell, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, tells of trying to ensure a transition come hell or high treason).
  — John Gans, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
• In a statement, prosecutors said the crime of rebellion was comparable to that of high treason in Germany’s penal code.
  — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
• Shariy is suspected of high treason by the Ukrainian authorities.
  — Artem Grudinin, NBC News, 5 May 2022
• Hutchinson reminded Adams of the definition of high treason.
  — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• Pakistan's former President and military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, has been sentenced to death for high treason after a legal case that went on for six years.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 17 Dec. 2019
• The Declaration constituted high treason against the Crown.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 4 July 2018
• In May, Ukrainian authorities charged Medvedchuk with high treason, shut down his television network and placed him under house arrest.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• Oxford was accused of high treason but ultimately found not guilty for reasons of insanity.
  — Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2018
• Under Pakistan's constitution, high treason is a crime that carries the death penalty or life imprisonment.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024