Example sentences for: extortion

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

  • Rockefeller extended this sanction to collusion, secret agreements, corporate spying, bribery, and extortion.

  • Then he was arrested for stalking his former mistress, Joy Silverman, and charged with extortion, interstate racketeering, and blackmail, among other crimes.

  • The war on tobacco offers the most telling example of this sort of extralegal 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.

  • Most people don't want to vote for a party that constantly succumbs to extortion from an extreme faction.


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