Sentence examples for were double-crossed from inspiring English sources

Two U.S. senators lied as well and then were double-crossed by White House aides.

In effect, he and his dream-encyclopedia were double-crossed during the struggle between magnates Cyril Pearson and Alfred Harmsworth (Lord North­cliffe) to take over the Times.

Released from prison, where he spent 10 hellish years but made a pile dealing contraband, Driver sets out to avenge the death of his brother because they were double-crossed during the bank heist.

Shareholders in some MLPs were double-crossed in another fashion, when the executives running the show folded partnership assets into corporations in a way that maximized the future tax benefit to the corporations but saddled limited partners with retroactive taxes, at stiff ordinary-income rates, on their past dividends.

"Inevitably, they are double-crossed".

Nixon thought that he had been double-crossed.

Instead, he was double-crossed by the Taliban.

Mullah Faisal, it turns out, was double-crossed.

When the Musas' killers learned of his plans, he was double-crossed and killed.

IF Honda's designers feel they have been double-crossed by American consumers, it would be understandable.

They looked at me as if they had been double-crossed.