Example sentences for: bribes

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

  • He pays his civil service virtually no salary, requiring them to earn their income through bribes.

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

  • In Silicon Valley, they were wined, dined, and offered bribes by slick twentysomething CEOs of companies with names like Fraudicom, EgoSoft, and Greed Systems PLC.

  • He takes no bribes, vows never to plant evidence or to shoot hardened criminals instead of arresting them, and single-handedly dynamites the "blue wall of silence" when police are caught beating the hell out of a group of Latino suspects.

  • USAT also notes that in the direct testimony of Netscape CEO James Barksdale released Monday, Barksdale claims Microsoft used threats and bribes to get various PC manufacturers and Internet service providers to go with MS' browser.


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