How to Use extort in a Sentence

extort

verb

• The criminals extorted large sums of money from their victims.
• He was arrested for extorting bribes.
• Most cops come in only to extort bribes from the brewers.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• To hack their accounts in a bid to extort them for nude selfies.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 25 June 2019
• Armed men sit in the shade at makeshift checkpoints and take turns to extort money from passers-by.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• The school board has for 40 years used the threat of teacher cuts to extort more funds from the Legislature.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
• An attempt was made to extort monies from me and the Smiling Buddha.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2018
• Thieves and gangs that extort businesses and kill those who don’t pay roam its cratered streets.
  — Sonia Pérez D. and Christopher Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• The texter implied that the artist was lying about the 2017 encounter with Brown, with the goal of extorting him for cash.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• At the same time unions used the pandemic to extort money from Congress.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• The kind that is controlled by an out-of-touch elite who fiddle and extort while the economy burns.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• And to subjugate them and extort money from them (Quran 9:29).
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• One of his lawyers has accused her of extorting money from him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• And greed, in trying to extort a million dollars from J&J.
  — Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• Legend has it that the place was used to extort, torture and kill those who crossed the mob, and the spirits of those unlucky victims still haunt the place today.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• In Libya, the smugglers herd the Africans together, beat them, sometimes rape them and extort money.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• In both cases, Bauer has said that the woman is lying in order to extort money from him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• The trio were at the home into the early morning hours in an attempt to extort money and other valuables from him.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2024
• Last year, before the charges were announced, a spokesperson for Trump argued that Daniels had, in fact, extorted him.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
• Is Trump’s rhetoric an effort to extort more money from Panama?
  — Julie Greene / Made By History, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
• The union resists reform while using the threat of walkouts and strikes to extort higher salaries and bigger pensions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Some of the people who paid the man would use the photos to extort the women and cyberstalk them, according to officials.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• The pair then used the data belonging to victims to extort them in exchange for not publishing it.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
• The same day, Phillips falsely reported to the VA police that Kirk had threatened to kill her and was extorting her for money.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• The family owns an auto repair shop in the southern state of Michoacán, where they were extorted and feared for their lives.
  — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 27 June 2024
• Falwell said his wife had an affair with Granda and claimed that Granda was now trying to extort the couple.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2020
• Chicks, pups, and infants may beg, cry, or whine to extort food from their parents—but these efforts aren’t as direct as what occurs in utero.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• Truitt refused to give Wright or Lemba the visa and attempted to extort money from the Wrights in exchange for the visa, the affidavit says.
  — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2019
• Hope) on Facebook, Faith asks her sister to meet at their old camp in Michigan and attempts to extort her for a million dollars.
  — Patti Greco, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2018
• Mayers, through his lawyer, says Ephron fabricated the shooting and a grazing injury to his hand to extort him for money.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025