Example Sentences

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It would have been betraying the characters if they’d rhymed too well.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2017

Other intelligence sources remain skeptical also that Belmokhtar would have been betraying the jihadi cause.

From Newsweek • Jan. 23, 2013

We have been betraying you, and now wish to be further bribed to stop doing so.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2011

To have messed in naval style would also have been betraying themselves.

From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.

"So, Master Babington, I find you have been betraying the trust I placed in you—" "What, trust, my Lord?" said Antony, his bright blue eyes looking back into those of the nobleman.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary