Example sentences for: bribe

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

  • In other words, it amounts to a bribe.

  • Schmeer is a Yiddish verb meaning `to apply an ointment or lubricant' and is commonly used as a slang term for `bribe,' no doubt because a bribe is seen as lubricating the wheels of bureaucracy.

  • The rich get richer, not because they're more efficient but because their ability to bribe is greater.

  • What you won't do for love, you'll still do for a bribe.

  • At the beginning of the play, England's church officials offer to underwrite an invasion as a bribe to keep Henry from appropriating church lands.


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