How to Use backstabbing in a Sentence

backstabbing

noun
  • She was hurt by her former friend's backstabbing.
  • And, for better or for worse, there was no backstabbing among the bakers.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
  • Looks like there’s a new player in this game of blackmail and backstabbing.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Traitors fans, now’s your chance to do a little backstabbing of your own.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Her book is seamy, full of score-settling, gossip and backstabbing.
    — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • There’s no backstabbing between them; there’s a lot of honesty.
    — Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2023
  • At least Tabitha and Moe are there to support Elodie in the very meta backstabbing.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
  • But what if the environment came with less backstabbing and more beer-drinking?
    — Megan Friedman, Country Living, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The game play and backstabbing feels more transparent this season than usual.
    — Joseph Longo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2021
  • And after a decade of backstabbing, greed, and bloodshed, their lives — and pop culture — would never be the same.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • There is just ambition, backstabbing and a mean streak of bullying.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Yes, there are insults aplenty, and the requisite amount of backstabbing.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • There's a comedic element that keeps things fresh as the group works through fake friendships and literal backstabbing.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 July 2022
  • Hopefully, next week, the stakes will feel higher, and there will be some delicious backstabbing.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Riedel, however, is at this best with backstabbing and betrayal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • But some of these godly men harbor secrets and ambitions that lead to backstabbing and scandal.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2024
  • My best friends shared that there is nothing stronger than a woman’s intuition and that backstabbing will be essential to win this time.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a lot more backstabbing, a lot more manipulation.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The factionalism and backstabbing left a bad taste in Firestone’s mouth.
    — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s inner circle is like the Court of the Borgias, full of intrigue and backstabbing.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2017
  • For those who love Survivor but don't care for the backstabbing, Alone is your best alternative.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For those who love Survivor but don't care for the backstabbing, Alone is your best alternative.
    — Sophie Van Bastelaer, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Groveland seems to be a city where backstabbing is an art form practiced by the very bored, but this reaches way beyond simple meddling.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2017
  • All that strategy and backstabbing!
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
  • If anything, the infighting among his staff and anonymous backstabbing in the press has only worsened as the stakes have risen higher.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 10 Feb. 2017
  • This could be as serious as a backstabbing betrayal from a friend or as simple as your child forgetting to take dinner out to thaw.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • There was plenty of incoherence, sure, a great number of poor decisions, and too much backstabbing.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The momentum of this storyline has really fizzled, and what started as juicy backstabbing has just sort of run its course.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • His downfall came amid a storm of corporate turnover and backstabbing, and Yetnikoff’s personal chaos.
    — Hillel Italie, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The victim of a literal backstabbing, the woman died after an attacker forced a blade into her chest from behind.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020

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