How to Use extortion in a Sentence

extortion

noun

• He was arrested and charged with extortion.
• In the past few years, extortions have been on the rise.
  — Karol Suárez, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
• Van der Sloot was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of extortion.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Van der Sloot was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the U.S. for extortion and wire fraud.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
• The foreign firms that were brought in were ripe for extortion.
  — Jessica Camille Aguirre, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• The extortion offense carries up to 20 years and the cocaine charge up to 10 years.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• Van der Sloot is charged with wire fraud and extortion, and was advised of his rights.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2023
• Aron instead brought the extortion attempt to the attention of the FBI.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
• The girl’s mother found out about the extortion later that same night in April 2021.
  — Chris Dehghanpoor, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• The extortion offense carried up to 20 years and the cocaine charge up to 10 years.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 2 July 2024
• In 1995, after he was released from prison in the Tylenol extortion case, Mr. Lewis moved to the Boston area.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• Which might have seemed like a steep bond for an extortion letter.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• Van der Sloot confessed to killing Holloway as part of a plea agreement in the extortion and fraud case.
  — Holmes Lybrand, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• His attorneys have framed the funds as a response to an extortion plot.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• He was convicted of extortion and served 13 years in prison.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2022
• The report tracked how the group, which first surfaced in the summer of 2021, uses a double-extortion playbook.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2022
• He was referred to in the 2019 extortion trial of the celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Park and Kim, Lee’s accusers, are being tried on extortion charges.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Charlie French, a sadistic mob wannabe, stashes a bag full of extortion-scheme cash in Max’s safe.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
• She has since been charged with robbery in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree and extortion in the first degree.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022
• In June 2010, a grand jury indicted him on wire fraud and extortion charges.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• Once nude images have been traded, that’s when the extortion starts, Gallas said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024
• At sentencing, Alexander could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison on the firearm count and 20 years on the extortion count.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2023
• This routine extortion, however, will turn out to be the least of their concerns.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
• He was sentenced to 35 years in jail for extortion and child pornography.
  — Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• The lawyer, Joe Tacopina, portrayed the former president as a victim of her extortion.
  — Kate Christobek, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Buzbee was sued this week by an anonymous plaintiff somehow linked to Combs who accused Buzbee and his firm of extortion.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
• But that figure is likely just a fraction of the digital extortion that went on that year.
  — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• Such leaks could lead to extortion or theft with no recourse, as crypto transactions cannot be reversed.
  — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
• Much of the film’s first half revolves around extortion plots and kidnappings connected to hopeless husband Liang.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024