Example sentences for: shakedown

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

  • shakedown a search of a prisoner or his cell.

  • Newly exposed Oval Office Nixon no-nos include: early plans to destroy the tapes, thanking a supporter for supplying funds Nixon knew were being used as hush money for the Watergate burglars, a plot to "shakedown" the milk lobby for more campaign contributions, and various schemes to interfere with the Democratic primaries by creating spurious grassroots campaigns for Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.

  • Compare the gunman's direct approach with the "voluntary standards" shakedown practiced by the federal government.

  • 'Whether you use the language of the street and call it a shakedown or whether you just call it our system, however you put it, it's a messy system.


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