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Example sentences for "betrayed"

Lexicographically close words:
betraie; betraied; betray; betrayal; betrayals; betrayer; betrayers; betrayeth; betraying; betrays
  1. Sir," answered the knight, "thou doest ill, for this lady hath betrayed me.

  2. So when they were together in a chamber, Sir Lancelot told the king how he had been betrayed by an enchantment, and how his brother Lionel was gone he knew not where, and how the damsel had delivered him from the castle of Queen Morgan le Fay.

  3. When she saw him she cried out, "Oh, Sir Lancelot, thou hast betrayed me; thou hast put me to death thus to depart and leave my lord the king.

  4. It could have been sent by only one person--the superscription, dainty and feminine, betrayed it.

  5. She swept our group fearlessly--her gaze crossed mine, but she betrayed no sign.

  6. Once, by a demure sideways glance, she betrayed knowledge of my presence.

  7. The dignity of her steps, and her whole mien, when she advanced towards my confessional, entirely betrayed her and destroyed her incognito.

  8. But the betrayed husband knows nothing of the dark mysteries of auricular confession; the duped father suspects nothing; a cloud from hell has obscured the intelligence of both, and made them blind.

  9. Very soon a slave appeared, whose features and costume betrayed a higher education.

  10. These foolish Goths, who have always preferred the Amelungs to the Balthes, are sold and betrayed by the Amelungs.

  11. A purple hem on his toga and delicate sandals betrayed riches, rank and taste, but a long brown soldier's mantle hid the remainder of his underclothing.

  12. Shall I betray my people as you have betrayed me?

  13. After all that had happened, she could not doubt that he loved her; and yet-- Not a syllable, not a look betrayed this love.

  14. He was in faultless civilian costume, which betrayed the officer in every detail.

  15. Cuffs and blows rained down upon them, and whoever betrayed by a look or a gesture that he had not imagined it possible to endure such treatment, was so shamefully ill-used that he abandoned all idea of making formal complaint.

  16. I told you that the villain who betrayed me took his life soon after.

  17. Although George betrayed nothing of all this, he noticed that very slowly there was a slight change of feeling towards him.

  18. His face was so well under control that not a muscle moved, and not a line on his countenance betrayed what he felt at the colonel's remarks.

  19. My eyes first sought Frau Salden, and soon found her in the midst of fashionable ladies and gentlemen, whose whole demeanour betrayed that they felt themselves to be peculiarly at home here.

  20. Sometimes when he was awake, and supposed that he was alone--sometimes when he was asleep and dreaming--the Cur had betrayed himself.

  21. Her eyes betrayed her, her voice betrayed her, while she said her parting words.

  22. He knew the story in which that cousin had played his part perfectly well; had he forgotten it, his remembrance of old faces would not have betrayed him in this instance.

  23. She had gone beyond herself--perhaps betrayed herself--but she had expressed her intention, and nothing that had happened since had induced her to swerve.

  24. The opinion that the latter had betrayed his master, and had been the cause of his death, became more and more general.

  25. He was of short stature, of dark complexion, thin and inactive, and the dulness of his wit was betrayed by his speech and by his eyes, which always seemed as if they were about to close in sleep.

  26. The Roman army in Mesopotamia was betrayed into a situation whence escape was impossible and where its capitulation was only a question of time.

  27. On obtaining a promise from Sapor that if she gave Hatra into his power he would make her his queen, this unnatural child turned against her father, betrayed him into Sapor's hands, and thus brought the war to an end.

  28. But Lucilian had no sooner recovered his spirits than he betrayed his want of discretion, by presuming to admonish his conqueror that he had rashly ventured, with a handful of men, to expose his person in the midst of his enemies.

  29. He was quite without self-consciousness, although there was that little touch of irresponsibility in him which betrayed a readiness to sell his dignity for a small compensation.

  30. All Saturday morning I could perceive, in consequence of this, my wife and daughters in close conference together, and now and then glancing at me with looks that betrayed a latent plot.

  31. But their union was soon found to be disagreeable and inconvenient to both; guilt gave shame frequent uneasiness, and shame often betrayed the secret conspiracies of guilt.

  32. I am not even taking any great risk, because there isn't a jury in America that would convict a father for killing the man who betrayed his daughter while her husband's back was turned.

  33. And how could he ever again dare to receive his mother's kiss if he betrayed the trust which she, at least, reposed in him?

  34. I put trust in two women, and one of them has betrayed it.

  35. They then stuck on the rust as before, and swept the windows clear of the filings and remaining bits of rust, which might have betrayed them.

  36. This at once betrayed her character, for had she been an honest trader, she would have had no reason to run from an English brig.

  37. From such information as alone we have possessed, we found this missionary of peace menaced and besieged, finally betrayed by some of his troops, and slaughtered by those whom he came to set free.

  38. He betrayed no trace in his demeanour, either to his friends or to the House, of embarrassment at the position.

  39. Others argued that, even if the offence could be passed over as lying outside of politics, it (M152) had been surrounded by incidents of squalor and deceit that betrayed a character in which no trust could ever be placed again.

  40. Also I told in that book the adventures of certain worthy knights and likewise how the magician Merlin was betrayed to his undoing by a sorceress hight Vivien.

  41. Then by and by he said: "Sir, I know not why you have put this upon me, nor do I know why you have betrayed me.

  42. Sidenote: How Sir Tristram fell into despair] Then Sir Tristram perceived how he had been betrayed and he put aside his harp and rose from where he sat.

  43. She said, "Tristram, you have betrayed me.

  44. As I had anticipated some such statement, I ought not to have betrayed the amazement with which I looked at her; but it was involuntary.

  45. Doubtless he thought that a betrayed secret may lawfully be re-betrayed as fully as possible.

  46. I never betrayed a human soul--no, nor any living thing that ever trusted me!

  47. Except for these, and the fixed lights on the foreign guard-ships and on a big American steam yacht, only a pale and nebulous shoreward glow betrayed the monster city.

  48. So this is how you've laughed at me, mocked me, betrayed me, made a fool of me!

  49. For love repayed By Mary's scorn, I weep, betrayed By one unborn!

  50. If that dog there has betrayed us into the hands of the enemy, curse him!

  51. She has laboured for you in love and patience; you must see she betrayed you for very love, to save your life.

  52. Whilst they were pinioning him he just asked-- "A woman betrayed me; is it not so?

  53. Then a sudden thought flashed across my mind--I had been betrayed by that fawning hypocrite!

  54. As they climbed the trail their legs betrayed them and confirmed the boy's story.

  55. His face also betrayed his inner happiness which the Lord Jesus had put in his heart.

  56. When I had forsaken the man who betrayed me, I was ashamed, for I was forsaken, betrayed, and robbed of all means to return home.

  57. Who has not betrayed his master many times since last he heard that note?

  58. It shows the blood which the fine hands of luxury never could wash off; the terrible secret at last betrayed itself.

  59. They had confirmed, or rather restored, the obnoxious privileges of feudalism, and thus betrayed the liberty and the interests of the peasantry.

  60. You are indeed," he says, in a tone so grateful that it ought to have betrayed to her his meaning.

  61. Your singing has betrayed to me one thing: if ever you suffer any great trouble it will kill you.

  62. Had a thunderbolt fallen at his feet, he could not have betrayed more thorough and complete discomfiture.

  63. His contemptuous indifference as to her knowledge of his infamies deprived her even of the cloak of pretended ignorance with which many a betrayed wife hides her wounded pride and self-respect.

  64. Oh, why have you betrayed my adoring faith in you!

  65. Nothing in all Letitia Lawton's silly, superficial life had betrayed so completely her absolute selfishness as did this eager desire to secure a son-in-law in the person of William Henry Bulkley.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betrayed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baffled; balked; betrayed; blasted; blighted; chapfallen; crestfallen; crushed; dashed; defeated; disappointed; disillusioned; dissatisfied; foiled; frustrated; regretful; soured; thwarted