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.
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Sometimes, migrants are kidnapped to extort money from their relatives in the U.S.
— Karol Suarez, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2021 -
Ndukwe has countersued, alleging the woman’s former attorneys tried to extort him for millions of dollars.
— Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2020 -
Those efforts were an attempt to frame the whistle-blower Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the lab, as being part of a plot to extort athletes who had been caught doping.
— New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021 -
These are just a couple of examples out of a wide range of scenarios where bad people bring bogus litigation to try to extort an innocent party lacking the economic power to fight back.
— Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021 -
For their part, the media give hysterical treatment to lawsuits and complaints lofted solely to extort hysterical media coverage.
— Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2020 -
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 -
At the same time unions used the pandemic to extort money from Congress.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022 -
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 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 -
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 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 -
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 -
Even if victims do decide to pay, hackers can still keep the data and try to extort companies for a second time.
— Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 July 2024 -
Among them was his scheme to extort millions of dollars from Nike, for which he was found guilty by a jury on three federal counts and sentenced to 30 months in prison.
— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 May 2024 -
One girl told police Nance raped her and tried to extort her for nude photographs, according to the affidavit.
— Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 12 July 2022 -
The man charged with attempting to extort state Sen. Lauren Book was sentenced Tuesday to one year and one day in prison and followed by 10 years of probation.
— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2022 -
Jones says the woman is attempting to extort him, a claim her attorneys deny.
— Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2022 -
The fake images were used to extort at least one victim on Instagram for real nude images or money, said the parent of one of the victims.
— Emmanuelle Saliba, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Once in the criminals’ hands that data can be selectively leaked to extort the victim.
— Lee Mathews, Forbes, 29 May 2021 -
South of the border, cartels harass, extort money from, kidnap and torture migrants trying to reach the U.S..
— Onkar Ghate, Orange County Register, 1 Sep. 2024 -
Producer Daemon Hillin first told Deadline that he is being extorted over 18 minutes of unedited footage from the feature that was allegedly obtained through hacking.
— Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 19 July 2024
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