Example Sentences

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I really do, but it feels like I am betraying my mother somehow.

From Slate • Dec. 25, 2018

And I am betraying something sacred by attempting to explain what he means to us.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2016

I love him, but I feel I am betraying my politics and community.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2015

If so, then maybe I am betraying her again by writing this.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2015

You must understand at last," he went on, "you must understand that in pronouncing his name I am betraying him to you—I am betraying him, am I not?

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor