Example sentences for: bribes

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

  • In the folk dramas of El Teatro Campesino (the Farmworkers’ Theater), la migra was often characterized as an unscrupulous arrogant patrol officer who accepted bribes from the growers and ordered raids in the agricultural fields to arrest undocumented immigrants the day before payday.

  • Last year, the Belgian secretary-general of NATO had to quit over charges that his Flemish Socialist Party accepted $50 million in bribes from a defense contractor.

  • Kohl could face criminal prosecution if it turns out he accepted bribes for specific government action.

  • Symonds had been hired in Morocco, where he fled in 1969 after being named as part of a ring of corrupt metropolitan police officers who had taken bribes.

  • The paper said that the revelation is certain to draw Sydney into the bribes furor, which has already caused two IOC delegates to resign over the scandal surrounding Salt Lake City, Utah's successful bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics.


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