Words similar to extort

Example sentences for: extort

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

Somebody has tried to extort $100,000 from online music retailer CD Universe by threatening to release some of the company's more than 300,000 customer credit-card files.
Autumn Jackson was convicted of trying to extort $40 million from Bill Cosby . Her lawyer is contemplating a paternity suit, which might oblige Cosby to take a blood test.
China will let the triads extort, smuggle drugs and arms, pander, and counterfeit.
This comes after Jackson was convicted of trying to extort $40 million from Cosby.
The answer, from Richard Clarke, the president's counterterrorism coordinator, is: "To extort us, to intimidate us, to get us to abandon our foreign policy."