betray

Example Sentences

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Somebody needed to fire them up because they looked flat, the body language betraying a team that was going under.

From BBC

Brown said he believes Mandelson "betrayed" his country by leaking the information.

From BBC

“Crawfie was ostracized as a result, and ‘doing a Crawfie’ became the shorthand term for any Palace employee who betrayed intimate family details for financial gain.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Strange,” he told the other two, his voice betraying a hint of excitement, as he began to think through the numbers as he wrote them down.

From Literature

But they generally ask questions, rather than answer them, careful not to betray future policy.

From The Wall Street Journal