How to Use high treason in a Sentence

high treason

noun
  • The conspirators were hanged for high treason.
  • Kara-Murza is also charged with high treason — no less than high treason.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Yanukovych fled to Russia and is wanted in Ukraine on charges of high treason.
    — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Musharraf is sentenced to death in absentia for high treason.
    — CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In 2019, he was sentenced to death in absentia for high treason.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Is the impeachment process something that should be reserved for the gravest kinds of offenses, high treason and the like?
    — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
  • The former leader was last month sentenced to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Niels Bohr called Einstein’s attitude appalling and accused him of high treason.
    — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
  • On April 1, Hitler and several of his co-conspirators were found guilty of high treason.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The 14-year sentence referenced in the post was for his high treason conviction, not for burning the Quran.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Resistance to this act was considered high treason, and the heads of its opponents, like Thomas More’s, would roll.
    — History Magazine, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Shariy is suspected of high treason by the Ukrainian authorities.
    — Artem Grudinin, NBC News, 5 May 2022
  • Sharif was re-elected and initiated high treason charges against Musharraf for his actions of 2007.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The last was King Charles I, who was tried and executed in 1649 for high treason and tyranny.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Purists argue nothing beyond eggs, mayonnaise, salt and pepper constitutes culinary high treason.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Charles was arrested, tried, convicted of high treason and beheaded in 1649.
    — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Several have been convicted of high treason, collaboration and aiding the aggressor state and sentenced to years-long jail terms.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In a statement, prosecutors said the crime of rebellion was comparable to that of high treason in Germany’s penal code.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • In medieval England, King Henry V decreed that any attack on a bearer of one would be treated as high treason.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The younger Cromwell was forced to resign in 1659, and Charles II returned the following year to re-take his crown. Oliver Cromwell’s body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey and put on trial for high treason in 1661.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Poroshenko appeared in court later Monday on charges of high treason and supporting terrorism, but by late in the evening in Kyiv, the court had not issued a ruling.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for high treason.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
  • In 1649, England’s King Charles I was executed for high treason.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • In May, Ukrainian authorities charged Medvedchuk with high treason, shut down his television network and placed him under house arrest.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The display is typically only removed in cases of high treason or rebellions against the Crown, according to The Sun.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On May 4, the London government and royal officials charged 278 men, women and children with high treason.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
  • However, Daoud noted that Ghana’s constitution still allows for the death penalty in cases of high treason, and called for the constitution to be revised as well.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Pakistan's former President and military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, has been sentenced to death for high treason after a legal case that went on for six years.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 17 Dec. 2019
  • At least two different calls had warned of a coming police raid at TV Rain; after the site was blocked, the false alarms regarding police seemed like a warning shot—leave or face arrest and charges of high treason.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The following afternoon an armed guard headed by Charles himself entered Parliament’s Westminster Palace, seeking to arrest five members on charges of high treason.
    — Catherine Nicholson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025

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