treason - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • commit: You are to be escorted... " " I did not commit treason, " Helm answered quietly.
  • consider: In that moment, Setsuna decided... She would commit the long considered treason.
  • speak: But those prophets or those who divine by dreams shall be put to death for having spoken treason against the Lord you God.. .
  • punish: She retreated to her porch, merely saying: " The King punishes severely any treason on the part of his subjects.
  • include: He also lived through Henry VIII's extension of the treason act in 1535 to include verbal treason.
  • constitute: Harboring a priest could incur the death penalty and merely being a priest constituted high treason.

Preposition: against

  • people: Did I not let my colleagues down by refusing to commit treason against the Nigerian people!
  • state: The leaders of the 1820 Radical Rising were quickly brought to trial and hanged for treason against the British State.

Adjective modifier

  • petty: A wife who killed her husband did not commit murder she committed the far worse crime of petty treason.
  • high: He was hanged for high treason at Rio de Janeiro.
  • such: Who could expect such treason from [ your ] breast, Such thunder from your voice?
  • committed: He laughs off the angry man, proclaiming: " Mr Blair is the one that's committed treason.
  • alleged: Strafford defended himself so well that his alleged treason could not legally be proved.
  • great: We are in fact party to a great treason.

Modifies a noun

  • trial: However, Bacon betrayed Essex during the latter's treason trial.
  • charge: Ocalan awaits trial on treason charges in a remote island jail in western Turkey.
  • law: We should redefine and simplify our treason laws along the lines of the USA as contained in its Constitution.
  • felony: Tables, pictures etc: Tables: tabular details relating to treason felony prisoners ( offense, sentence, age, medical records etc.

Noun used with modifier

  • gunpowder: I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
  • war: He was charged with " war treason " and was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

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