Example sentences for: bribe

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

  • 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.

  • He reportedly denied that the money was a bribe and said it went toward helping sport in Kenya and Uganda.

  • Lastly, his incentive need not be financial (a "bribe").

  • And those things you won't do even for a bribe are, presumably, sufficiently distasteful that you shouldn't do them.

  • 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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