How to Use extradite in a Sentence
extradite
verb- The prisoner was extradited across state lines.
- He will be extradited from the U.S. to Canada to face criminal charges there.
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Mark Sokolovsky, 26, is in custody in the Netherlands as the U.S. tries to extradite him.
—Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2022
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He was extradited back to the U.S. in May to face the pending charges.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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But by the time he and two of his lieutenants were extradited, the case was over.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 19 July 2024
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But Germany’s supreme leader had fled to the Netherlands and the Dutch refused to extradite him.
—Benjamin Nathans, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
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France, Switzerland and Poland have rejected bids to extradite him to the U.S.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 14 July 2022
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Libya refused to extradite the men to the U.S. but ultimately agreed to a deal to put them on trial in the Netherlands.
—Eric Tucker, ajc, 16 Dec. 2020
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El Chapo has since been extradited to the U.S., sentenced to life in prison, and ordered to pay $12.6 billion.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2023
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Ng has been extradited from Malaysia to the U.S. to face similar charges.
—Shamim Adam, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
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Villegas was in the process of being extradited from New York to Ocean County to face the charges.
—Peter Marteka, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
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He was extradited to Ohio a month later and has been held at the Butler County Jail since that time.
—Sonia Chopra, Cincinnati.com, 16 Dec. 2019
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Arrested once again by the Garda, he was freed once again by the Irish state, which refused to extradite him.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
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Police were not able to confirm if the pair had been extradited to New York as of Friday.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
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Ma Seok-do who heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
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The Venice court of appeals will now have to rule on Guevara’s case before he can be extradited.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
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France does not extradite its citizens to the United States per French law.
—Fox News, 14 July 2020
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Right before he was extradited to the U.S. for arraignment, Cazes was found dead in his jail cell.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
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Troopers say he was extradited to the U.S. in August and is expected to face the charges in Alaska state courts.
—Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2019
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The attorney also said that his client is prepared to fight any effort to extradite him to the United States.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
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He was extradited and booked into the Travis County Jail about a month later, jail records show.
—Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Dec. 2024
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Hackett was the first and last enslaved person to be extradited from Canada back to the United States.
—Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2023
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Seoul High Court will now decide within two months whether to extradite the woman to New Zealand.
—Gawon Bae, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
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The offense also needs to be a crime in both countries for the detaining nation to extradite.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020
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She was arrested on the U.S. charges and was extradited from the United Kingdom.
—Michael James, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
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Sam’s lawyers had a guy on the inside and outside advising on when he might be extradited from the Bahamas.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Oct. 2023
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Bail was denied, and eight days later he was extradited to the United States.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
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Aina and Abiodun have been extradited from Nigera to the United States.
—Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2024
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He was detained in April in Metz, France, after a three-year search, and a French appeals court later said he could be extradited.
—CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
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Australia has agreed to extradite a former Marine pilot whom the U.S. has accused of training Chinese pilots more than a decade ago.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
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