Example sentences for: bribes

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

  • 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.

  • The movie portrays the elder Dewey as a crook, regularly taking bribes from Lucky Luciano and other criminals.

  • Boris Yeltsin is suspected of taking bribes.

  • Unable to afford hefty bribes or airfare to Canada, Russian mothers are looking for other ways to finesse Russia's Byzantine draft laws and keep their sons out of the Chechen conflict.

  • At the same time, the governor and his cronies were busily pocketing bribes, as was the custom in the self-financing French colonial service.


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