How to use "betray" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "betray" in popular movie and book plots

  • He wants to tell him the truth but cannot bring himself to betray his own flesh and blood.  - Centennial (miniseries)
  • She asks Lasaraleen not to betray her, and to help her escape from Tashbaan.  - The Horse and His Boy
  • Rourke and the crew betray Milo, intending to bring the crystal to the surface and sell it.  - Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  • However, the women betray them to the Daleks out of desperation.  - Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
  • Paul is not bold enough to make a clean break, as Finnerty has done, until his superiors ask him to betray Finnerty and Lasher.  - Player Piano (novel)
  • Soon after, Wanda and Otto betray George to the police and he is arrested.  - A Fish Called Wanda
  • Tony vouches for Frank's organization, so Sosa agrees to the deal, parting with a warning that Tony should never betray him.  - Scarface (1983 film)
  • He taunts Preston, asking him how it felt to betray the Underground.  - Equilibrium (film)
  • or suspected of others", and he certainly cut a poor figure compared to his fellow conspirators were unwilling to betray their principles.  - Edmund Waller
  • They are interrupted by Number 2, who attempts to betray dr Evil by making a deal with Powers.  - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
  • As the fever comes and goes in the following days, Raskolnikov behaves as though he wishes to betray himself.  - Crime and Punishment
  • Scar survives the fall but is killed by the hyenas, who overheard him betray them to Simba.  - The Lion King
  • He had not told Marguerite because of his worry that she might betray him, as she had the Marquis de st Cyr.  - The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Polk forces Hooker to betray Gondorff by threatening to incarcerate Luther Coleman's widow.  - The Sting
  • She generously takes them in, and doesn't betray them to a passing German army patrol.  - La Grande Illusion
  • Anne refuses, saying that she would rather die than betray their daughter.  - Anne of the Thousand Days

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