Example sentences for: exacted

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

  • I can't wait to read Martin Amis on Hannibal , Tom Stoppard on his newfound Jewish heritage, and Mimi Swartz on the legal revenge being exacted by wronged first wives.

  • I remember the pain exacted by Thatcherism in its early years, when half a century of disastrous socialist economics had wrought another mess of poverty, stagnation, and resentment.

  • The people were tired of paying the tribute exacted by the Catholic church.

  • In 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French troops forcibly occupied Beijing and exacted treaty rights.

  • But if there were three or four teams in New York, the monopoly rents exacted by the Yankees would decline, which means they wouldn't be able to pay so much for players, which means it would be easier to run a team successfully in a small market.


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