Betrays is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Betrays in a sentence
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Betrays meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of betray
Using Betrays
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of betray
- In the example corpus, betrays often appears in combinations such as: betrays the, betrays her, betrays him.
Context around Betrays
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Betrays
- In this selection, "betrays" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, notice, cole, nra, mjf, riri and either stand out and add context to how "betrays" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include anthem saga betrays a fundamental and arrival sharon betrays riri with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "betrays" sits close to words such as aborigines, abreu and accommodates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with betrays
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is a woman that never betrays him. (8 words)
The current national anthem saga betrays a fundamental lack of seriousness. (11 words)
Bush’s tweet also betrays an ignorance of how diversity and opportunity work in the real world. (17 words)
This is something so many of us can learn from as we live in a society, as black women, that push us to be a version of ourselves that is palatable, but in the end, it betrays who we really are as an individual. (44 words)
But with Biden in power, they have been under pressure to toe the party line even when it betrays their left-wing credentials and the hopes of those who threw themselves into the Democrats to back Biden. (37 words)
The NRA betrays its lack of confidence in its own myth by arguing, in the same breath, that any gun regulation would lead to ever stricter gun regulations, eventually leading to total bans on guns. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Bush’s tweet also betrays an ignorance of how diversity and opportunity work in the real world.
But with Biden in power, they have been under pressure to toe the party line even when it betrays their left-wing credentials and the hopes of those who threw themselves into the Democrats to back Biden.
Instead of seeing this for what it is, Paramount issuing a takedown notice betrays a lack of understanding on modern executives' part about why still exists at all.
Over the course of an efficient 84 minutes, Cléo changes and resists change, she learns and rejects life lessons, she befriends and betrays.
Prediction and analysis: Hard to call with so many moving parts but my feeling is that Cole betrays MJF with the Kingdom’s help revealing himself as the group’s true leader.
The NRA betrays its lack of confidence in its own myth by arguing, in the same breath, that any gun regulation would lead to ever stricter gun regulations, eventually leading to total bans on guns.
This accentuation of the negative also betrays a lack of confidence about how to convey Labour’s positive messages.
This is a woman that never betrays him.
This is something so many of us can learn from as we live in a society, as black women, that push us to be a version of ourselves that is palatable, but in the end, it betrays who we really are as an individual.
Valeria stays quiet during these family “jokes,” however, her face betrays her uncertainty about how she’ll adjust to motherhood and caring for a child.
Despite warning her about the Federation's arrival, Sharon betrays Riri, with the Federation mustering outside the door.
In case he fails to perform to people’s expectations, or betrays his oath, that signed resignation letter will be taken and dated on the day he gets booted out of office.
It betrays a lack of seriousness and a callous disregard for basic economic praxis,” the WPA said in a statement on Monday.
It’s fine to want sex, but to want something deeper—an intimate, unguarded emotional connection—betrays a terribly uncool weakness.
Musk, an OpenAI co-founder, sued the company and CEO Sam Altman last week, alleging that its multi-billion-dollar partnership with Microsoft betrays its founding commitment to benefiting humanity over making profit.
The current national anthem saga betrays a fundamental lack of seriousness.
This betrays either widespread confusion about Church teaching, the emotional and psychological effects of cognitive dissonance, or both.
To say that a new play betrays a sitcom sensibility probably sounds a little pejorative, under most circumstances.
What’s particularly galling is that Eloise’s wilful ignorance betrays her own character development, and paints her as an entirely disingenuous self-empowered heroine.
A look at their raw specifications betrays the real-world performance of these cards as much almost as benchmarks have been able to do.
Common combinations with betrays
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- betrays the 8×
- betrays her 7×
- betrays him 5×
- betrays his 5×
- he betrays 5×
- that betrays 5×
- betrays an 4×
- betrays their 4×
- it betrays 3×
- betrays lack 3×