Example Sentences

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“It’s going to be all right,” grown-ups keep telling Christopher in bruised, self-betraying voices.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2014

Should we not expect, at the very least, the hesitating, suspicious, self-betraying tone usual in all such cases?

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry

No implicated man or woman took untimely courage, or made a self-betraying step.

From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles

She sat silent while, with enormous and self-betraying pains to avoid detection, he studied her firm thin brilliantly red lips.

From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair

No. 203: "As she looked at you, filled with the might of her self-betraying love, so she then, in order to conceal it, looked also at the other persons."

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus