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Example sentences for: extort

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

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."
This comes after Jackson was convicted of trying to extort $40 million from Cosby.
China will let the triads extort, smuggle drugs and arms, pander, and counterfeit.
He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
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.