6 sentences with 'betrayed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word betrayed and other words derived from it.
• « The Spartan king, Leonidas, and his troops held the Persian forces in place until the Spartans were betrayed by a Greek hired by the Persians to reveal a way for the Persians to encircle the Greeks and eventually overwhelm them. »
• « The Romans, however, betrayed them and seized the islands of Corsica and Sardinia as well, territories that were still under Carthage's nominal control. »
• « According to Roman historians, Claudius was eventually betrayed and poisoned by his wife, who wanted their son from another marriage to become emperor. That son was Nero. »
• « Thus, even nominally sympathetic male politicians repeatedly betrayed promises to push the issue of women's suffrage into law. »
• « After the Algerian war, millions of white Algerians moved to France and many of them felt betrayed and embittered. They became the nucleus of a new French political far right, openly racist and opposed to immigration from France's former colonies. »
• « Those who opposed the proposal for a stronger federal government argued that such a plan betrayed the Revolution by limiting the voice of the American people. »