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How to use treason in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Treason means the crime of betraying one’s own country. Example: “The mere suggestion that the queen’s brother tried to kill your boy would be considered treason.”

Examples of treason by meaning

nounThe crime of betraying one’s own country.

  • If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning.1964 November, Richard J. Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, in Robert Shnayerson, editor, Harper's Magazine, New York...
  • This represents treason of the highest order.2013, Lucas Pope, Papers, Please, scene: Ending 14

More sentences with treason

  • The mere suggestion that the queen’s brother tried to kill your boy would be considered treason.From the entry mere
  • He was arraigned in Washington, D.C., on the 25th of that month on charges of treason.From the entry arraign
  • Some of the old laws against treason are no longer in force.From the entry in force
  • That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.From the entry neighbour
  • This was grist for the mill, linking homosexuality with communist "treason."2005 March 2, Leslie Feinberg, “Even McCarthy was gay baited”, in Workers World. From the entry grist for the mill
  • The Pope declares me guilty of treason; he is using a flynet to catch an eagle.1911, Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. From the entry flynet
  • He said nothing bad of Brunhild, yet he accused Fredegund of a great many crimes, including murder, sacrilege, witchcraft and treason.2015, E. T Dailey, Queens, Consorts, Concubines, page 119. From the entry Brunhild
  • With that patronage in jeopardy, matters must be doubly anxietous with accusations of treason hanging over his head.2003, Madeleine E. Robins, Point of Honour, Forge, →ISBN, page 247. From the entry anxietous
  • Short of high treason, the gravest form of breach of the peace known to British law is riot.1938 May 16, “Jamaica: Riot Act”, in Time. From the entry breach of the peace
  • Still strenuously resisting legalitarian socialism as treason to the cause, he had abandoned the values of his Bakuninist youth without yet finding replacements for them.2009, Richard Drake, Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition. From the entry legalitarian
  • Yet it is characteristic of treason and murder among the great that the yoke-devils are not at once noticed by those not directly involved.1976, George Richard Marek, The Bed and the Throne. From the entry yoke-devil
  • But general staffs are jealous of their secrets, and treason so serious a thing that even a hint of it may not be safely neglected.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt…. From the entry general staff
  • England was a confusion of warring camps, where families and towns and countrysides were split into hating factions; everywhere there was treason and countertreason, and raid and counterraid.2010, John Dos Passos, The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed, page 99. From the entry counterraid
  • He had affairs, drank tremendously, raised taxes in the provinces to pay for his indulgences, and started once again to hold the infamous treason trials as Caligula had done.2007, Susan Wise Bauer, “The Problem of Succession”, in The History of the Ancient World, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, page 729. From the entry temperance

Meaning of treason

  1. noun The crime of betraying one’s own country.
  2. noun An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.

Full definition of treason

Questions about treason in a sentence

How do you use treason in a sentence?
Treason is used as a noun. For example: “The mere suggestion that the queen’s brother tried to kill your boy would be considered treason.”
What is a short sentence with treason?
“This represents treason of the highest order.”
What does treason mean?
Treason means the crime of betraying one’s own country.

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