betray

Example Sentences

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"I would get up and have breakfast, and he would look at me in the eye. And I don't know how he could have betrayed me for so many years."

From BBC

The divide between the demons and humans gets blurred when it's discovered that one character was once human but betrayed their family, while another is secretly hiding signs of a demon identity.

From BBC

The awkward spectacle in which he apologized for betraying an unnamed girlfriend transfixed the nation—then the entire world.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Of course,” Dad says, though his wobbly voice betrays doubt.

From Literature

Neither of them would betray what they had seen.

From Literature