TRAITOR in a Sentence

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My people have not seen a bright sun in many winters; and the warrior who deserts his tribe when hid in clouds is doubly a traitor.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAITOR
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traitor
 n.  one who violates his allegiance and betrays his country
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  And the mildest thing they'll say is that Suellen is a murderess and a traitor and but for her Mr. O'Hara would still be alive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
2  Scarlett had cast her lot with the enemy and, whatever her birth and family connections, she was now in the category of a turncoat, a nigger lover, a traitor, a Republican-- and a Scallawag.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Yet to the casual eye she was not discontented, she was not an abnormal and distressing traitor to the faith of Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  My people have not seen a bright sun in many winters; and the warrior who deserts his tribe when hid in clouds is doubly a traitor.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
5  Tom chased the traitor home, and thus found out where he lived.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Nay, madame, I pray you pardon this little traitor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
7  Since I set my foot in France, and knew the traitor lived in Paris, I have watched carefully.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
8  We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
9  "I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning," he said finally.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  He must disclose all, or he is a traitor to his service.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
11  Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the rights of man, is sentenced to.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  Anyone who stays is a traitor to the Tsar.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IX
13  "Vereshchagin is a renegade and a traitor who will be punished as he deserves," said he with the vindictive heat with which people speak when recalling an insult.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
14  There has not been a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, approved, counter-signed, and copied, ne variatur, the partition of Poland.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15  It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
Example Sentence:
1  He was surprised to discover that his best friend had turned traitor.
2  Their hatred for a scab is as terrible as the hatred of a patriot for a traitor, of a Christian for a Judas.
3  He would whip them into a frenzy with tirades against blacks and their traitorous white sympathizers.
4  His traitorous activity got him court - martialed.