Example Sentences

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It says society is betraying children and the problems are limiting their future and damaging economic prosperity.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2024

I think as a teen, your body is betraying you.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2022

It keeps her going, she said, and counters some of her feelings that she is betraying her country by not being there to fight back.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2022

One question always hangs in the air, however: who is betraying whom?

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2020

She doesn’t care anymore if she is betraying her lie.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez