Use betrays in a sentence
Short sentences using betrays
- His steed betrays hard usage. [5]
More example sentences with the word betrays in them
- Thirty or forty years more carry you to the time when this incumbent began the duties of his office; his hand was steady then; and the next volume beyond it in date betrays the work of a still different writer. [6]
- There is something,--I will not stop now to try and define it,--but there is something by which we recognize an American among the English before he speaks and betrays his origin. [6]
- It betrays its various moods by aspects which are the commonplaces of poetry, as smiles and dimples and wrinkles and frowns. [6]
- He is much thinner, and his face betrays acute suffering. [9]
- At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways. [5]
- The first juice that runs of itself from the grapes comes from the heart of the fruit, and tastes of the pulp only; when the grapes are squeezed in the press the flow betrays the flavor of the skin. [6]
- She tried to seem very busy with her prayer-book and her responses, and unconscious that she was out of place, but I said to myself, "She is not succeeding--there is a distressed tremulousness in her voice which betrays increasing embarrassment. [5]
- This must be remembered in reading anything written by those who knew the century in its teens; it is not likely to be forgotten, for the fact betrays itself in all the writer's thoughts and expressions. [6]
- The story betrays marks of haste or carelessness in some portions, though others are elaborately studied. [6]
- If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is bad. [2]
- This, too, betrays itself in the sentences which follow those just quoted:-- "'In short,' says Morton, 'I was already enrolled in that large category of what are called young men of genius, . [6]
- How long will it be before we shall learn that for every wound which betrays itself to the sight by a scar, there are a thousand unseen mutilations that cripple, each of them, some one or more of our highest faculties? [6]
- Where'er the ocean inlet strays, The salt sea wave its source betrays, Where'er the queen of summer blows, She tells the zephyr, "I'm the rose! [6]
- Blushing means nothing, in some persons; in others, it betrays a profound inward agitation,--a perturbation of the feelings far more trying than the passions which with many easily moved persons break forth in tears. [6]
- And found what I have learned to expect--retrogression, and that pathetic something in the eye which betrays the secret of a waning hope. [5]
- In the rider's heart were a hundred things; among them fear, that miserable depression which comes with the first defeats of life, the falling of the mercury from passionate activity to that frozen numbness which betrays the exhausted nerve and despairing mind. [11]
- I mean to have little Maurice brought into the presence of Laura, who is said to be still a very handsome woman, and see if he betrays any hint of that peculiar sensitiveness which showed itself in my threatening seizure. [6]
- A frightful endemic demoralization betrays itself in the frequency with which the haggard features and drooping shoulders of the opium-drunkards are met with in the streets. [3]
- The American elm betrays something of both; yet sometimes, as we shall see, puts on a certain resemblance to its sturdier neighbor. [6]
- The face might be an uninteresting one; still, as sharing the inevitable changes wrought by time, it would be worth looking at as it passed through the curve of life,--the vital parabola, which betrays itself in the symbolic changes of the features. [6]
- All at once a morning ray touches one of the two buds, and the point of a blushing petal betrays the imprisoned and swelling blossom. [6]
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