Example Sentences

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Le Pen alliances are famously rocky, and the family’s treacheries have for decades delighted the French media.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

“There are treacheries and enmities in abundance against me. Joan Sumner is now claiming she never agreed to marry me. She complains that I have claimed to be richer than I am.”

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016

Along the eastern shore of Nantucket, exposed to the delights and treacheries of the Atlantic, lies Sankaty Head.

From Golf Digest • Nov. 3, 2014

On the bright side, we might wonder whether emoji represent a chance to be free, however temporarily, of the constraints and treacheries of language.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2014

His choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway