Words similar to extortion

Example sentences for: extortion

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

Then he was arrested for stalking his former mistress, Joy Silverman, and charged with extortion, interstate racketeering, and blackmail, among other crimes.
Typically, extortion means that you're threatening someone with harm or embarrassment to extract a concession.
Because of its committed, disciplined rank and file and economic base in extortion, the Mafia emerged as the dominant organized-crime group to survive Prohibition's repeal.
His charge of "ideological extortion" is part of his ideological extortion.
). I mean law professor Michael Rips' argument that the woman in the Bill Cosby extortion case wasn't doing anything illegal--at least she wouldn't have been if she'd done what more sophisticated people do for money every day--have a lawyer threaten to make the disclosures.