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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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