How to Use faithless in a Sentence

faithless

adjective
  • The French had said the British were faithless.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • These electors who break that pledge are called faithless electors.
    — Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • She then can be redeemed only by killing the faithless Prince.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Diana was five feet ten inches tall, the same height as her faithless husband.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Since Biden is no longer in the running, they won't be considered faithless.
    — Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 23 July 2024
  • But, these faithless actors have never changed the outcome of an election.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Restricted access kept the faithful in and the faithless out.
    — National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The objection to the faithless elector was rejected by both chambers.
    — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The Supreme Court ruled July 6 that states can punish faithless electors who go rogue.
    — USA Today, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Following the ten faithless votes in 2016, more states adopted laws that prevent this.
    — Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Medea became Anna, a biochemist with two children and a faithless husband who takes credit for her research.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Nellore admits to being of faithless background yet criticizes people of faith.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The company is suing the faithless investors and is being sued itself by other investors who claim they were misled.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • However, no election has ever been determined by a faithless elector.
    — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Washington State’s top court ruled that its own faithless electors could be fined for not complying.
    — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 21 Nov. 2019
  • This is where faithless electors could play a role, and the campaign would feel more comfortable adding Pennsylvania to the win column.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • There were an unusually high number of faithless electors in 2016.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
  • In Colorado the state nullified the vote of its faithless elector while Washington fined their three rogue electors.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The novel tells the story of a holy warrior and a faithless doctor who try and prevent a powerful demon from establishing hell on earth.
    — Graham Ambrose, The Know, 14 June 2017
  • However, most states have laws which nullify the votes of faithless electors, and there are not expected to be enough to alter the outcome of the election.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Legal scholars said Tuesday's ruling was the first from a federal appeals court on the issue of faithless electors.
    — Pete Williams, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Washington accepted the votes of its faithless electors but fined them for violating a state law requiring them to conform to the popular vote.
    — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Spouses, in this gritty Philadelphia suburb, are mostly faithless, absent or dead.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • At issue in cases from Washington and Colorado is whether states can penalize, or remove, a faithless elector.
    — Greg Stohr, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2020
  • For millennial audiences who’ve grown up with Woody and the gang over years of toy stories, the movie may even seem a minor miracle — proof that faith can be kept in a faithless world.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • FairVote found that since the founding of the Electoral College, there have been 167 faithless electors.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Consumed by rage and betrayal, Eleanor is driven to take a bloody, supernatural revenge upon her faithless husband.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The seven faithless electors in 2016 made up the largest number of electors voting contrary to their party’s winner in over a century.
    — Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Roosevelt eschewed the possibility of faithless electors interfering with the popular vote this year.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The Libertarian Party has only received one electoral vote for president, from a faithless elector in 1972.
    — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018

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