Example Sentences

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What mattered more was always the creativity and abjection with which the contestants approached his personal challenge: Prove your loyalty through self-betrayal.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2023

And it is also about fear, loneliness, friendship, mother-love, betrayal, self-betrayal — in short, the whole shooting-match of mortal sensibility and dilemma.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

The corrosive consequence is a sense of disempowerment, and even self-betrayal.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2021

Throughout the actor conveys the troubled decency of a good man driven to self-betrayal.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2015

For even Dennis Hoagland understands that in every betrayal dwells a self-betrayal, which brings you that much closer to a reckoning.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee