Sentence examples for betrays from inspiring English sources

The word "betrays" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when someone betrays someone else, or betrays a promise, expectation, or trust. For example: "The king's advisor betrayed him by revealing the secret plans to the enemy."

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betrays

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Third person singular of betray

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MacGregor's reply - also released under the act - is equally surprising, since it betrays the view of a man ground down by the dispute.

The "new world order" heralded after the end of the cold war betrays everywhere, in Clifford Geertz's words, a "pervasive raggedness".

They are the main source of activity on this placid street, but their patient presence barely betrays the hubbub within.

The Miranda detention betrays that understanding, since it does not involve terrorism in any way.

And the author who yields to the temptation to deploy their characters as champions of a cause, however worthy, certainly betrays those characters and their art, but also does little to advance any cause.

Either Tsipras betrays his own ideology to deter default – reneging on promises that got him into power – or he goes down as the man who allowed his country to do what no other EU member has done: enter the uncharted waters of euro exit.

It betrays a fundamental disinterest in what homes are like inside and how it is to live in them.

Despite his confident words, his voice betrays traces of doubt.

AshLee, from Bachelor Sean's season, is a "professional organizer" with a heart-breaking story of her own adoption, and a tendency to turn stone cold on any man who betrays her.

He betrays real loathing for Congress (most members are parochial, incompetent, rude, thin-skinned, self-serving and hypocritical, is his verdict).

A book by a veteran CDU adviser calls her Germany's "godmother"—in the mafia, not the maternal, sense a person with no values who betrays the ones held by the CDU whenever it suits her.

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