Example sentences for: bribes

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

  • Ordinarily, of course, bribery tends to be somewhat self-limiting, in the sense that you don't want to spend more on bribes than the revenue that you generate through them.

  • Mario Ruiz Massieu is accused of using his office to extract bribes from drug traffickers.

  • 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.

  • Police recently arrested two other top politicians and raided the headquarters of the French Socialist Party in connection with bribes from another defense firm.

  • The cover story warns of the growing power of Mexican drug gangs, which now control 70 percent of the U.S. cocaine trade, and whose intimidating tactics and bribes have all but paralyzed the Mexican government.


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