How to Use treachery in a Sentence

treachery

noun
  • The Seattle Times was right about the whole treachery part!
    Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 13 Feb. 2018
  • But what the file also revealed was a long trail of treachery.
    Lynell George, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
  • Pence refuses to learn from the treachery of the people around him.
    William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • But treachery in the court of Sultan Suleiman (Lachy Hulme) breaks up that party.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • Even within the treacheries plotted by the villain, Don John, Tedesco keeps the tone light and airy.
    nola.com, 19 June 2019
  • If war is hell, this is its ninth circle, the circle of treachery.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Putin, however, saw it as proof of the West’s treachery.
    Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The judge said at the time that factors such as cruelty and treachery had not been proven.
    Jim Gomez, Star Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020
  • But the depth of the Loyalists’ treacheries appalled him.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • This is a level of treachery that knocks Lucy nearly as much as William.
    Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The Wrights never blamed Allen for his brothers’ treachery.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • For protesters in Greece, any sharing of the M-word is treachery.
    The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • Not only that, Sonny’s the national coach of the year for his treachery.
    Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Yet, all through this treachery and mayhem, the audience is just about on the floor with laughter.
    Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The move left him with a lingering taint of treachery in the eyes of some Conservatives.
    Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
  • As much talk as there is about treachery and deceit, the most valuable skill on The Traitors is deflection.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2024
  • This was a shocking step for the show, which prides itself on being a free-for-all of deceit, mind games and treachery.
    Noam Cohen, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Some viewed him with a quizzical brow — a fair response given the treachery of dating.
    Reina Abrevaya, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
  • McConnell’s treachery at that pivotal moment has been hashed over at length since the Post first broke the story.
    Brian Beutler, New Republic, 13 July 2017
  • Despite the violence and treachery, the suffering and vengeance, there is a final scene of hope, even a touch of joy.
    Chris Offutt, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Joe Maddon took the blame for Gallo’s treachery, which, yes, was genius.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Hovhannisyan, as a pure-hearted, tragic Siegfried, was the focus of Odile’s treachery and, in the end, the force that triumphed over evil.
    Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2018
  • Such letters have since become a symbol of the female treachery that can damage a man as deeply as the wartime loss of life or limb.
    Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
  • One daughter couldn't resist, however, and lost her arm to the treachery of monsters and men.
    Shannon Gibney, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The chickens come home to roost in Fargo’s finale, bringing to a close a season of treachery and murder.
    Nick Schager, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Lanthimos ridicules mankind’s treachery in films that, scene by scene, are not provocative, just crass.
    Armond White, National Review, 21 June 2024
  • New Hampshire is a flat, 1-mile track with treachery in every corner.
    Matt Crossman, charlotteobserver, 13 July 2017
  • Drunken shouts, parochial boasts, empty words cannot conceal the treachery.
    Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • There is treachery in nostalgia, shame in a nation’s sins.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • As if falling in love wasn’t hard enough, this series ups the ante with even more mind games and treachery than the average first month of dating.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 May 2024

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