Example sentences for: extortion

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

  • ). 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.

  • His charge of "ideological extortion" is part of his ideological extortion.

  • The "ideological extortion" argument is particularly ingenious.

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

  • Typically, extortion means that you're threatening someone with harm or embarrassment to extract a concession.


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