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Example sentences for: blackmail

How can you use “blackmail” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A piece accuses avant-garde artists of "cultural blackmail."
(The Journal even insisted that Flynt should be prosecuted for blackmail.)
By threatening to blackmail Jones, the president's lawyer managed to make his client look guilty as hell, enrage the feminists who had refrained from criticizing Clinton until then, and incite editorial boards around the country, while doing nothing to bring Jones' lawyers back to the settlement table.
6) Israeli politics will fragment, nobody will win, and tiny fringe parties will be able to blackmail the next government, just as they blackmailed Netanyahu.
But I am told that there is a different world out there that represents some present and powerful political reality: It is a world in which it is wrong to think about defamation, wrong to think about trade secrets, wrong to think about blackmail.