How to Use bilk in a Sentence

bilk

verb

• The victim told police that he was bilked out of more than $3,000.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 30 Sep. 2019
• We the people will get bilked (again) and left (again) without health care.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
• That last name was the killer’s true one; the others the aliases of the bigamist who went from bilking paramours and brides to murdering them.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
• Hale last year was first accused of bilking a 79-year-old out of tens of thousands of dollars.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2023
• Thousands of investors were bilked of more than $450 million.
  — Heather Timmons, Quartz, 9 July 2019
• Federal prosecutors say the scheme bilked at least $35 million from the U.S. Navy over the course of a decade.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Others warned that rings of scammers were bilking the system.
  — John Fund, National Review, 23 Apr. 2023
• The real gift is to consumers who have been bilked again and again by big banks and predatory payday lenders.
  — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• Take Bernie Madoff, the financier whose Ponzi scheme bilked billions out of investors.
  — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2017
• The government, under the inattentive care of Democrats, may have been bilked for ages by a man the FBI has alleged to be a fraudster.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• She had been charged six months earlier with one count of wire fraud for bilking the 87-year-old victim out of $2.8 million.
  — Fabiana Chaparro, CNN, 28 July 2023
• He'd been dogged by lawsuits and liens for bilking tens of thousands of dollars from investors.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• He was freed from the misery of that boarding school only when Sarah, having been bilked by a fortune hunter, went broke and had to withdraw him.
  — Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• The money was found bilked from the government’s coffers and mismanaged.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
• Now, Girardi stands disgraced, disbarred and charged in two states with bilking his clients.
  — Siobhan O'Driscoll, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Trump is casting the world as having collectively -- and purposely -- bilked the US for decades.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 June 2018
• But Gervais, sentenced to six years and three months in prison Tuesday, bilked the woman of thousands of dollars and delayed a surgery the woman had planned, court records show.
  — Ben Brasch, ajc, 17 May 2018
• Tens of millions of people are ensnared in these pyramid schemes that use cult-like techniques to brainwash their targets and bilk them out of their money.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• The co-owner and a manager of a Findlay Market stand have been charged with bilking the government out of $3.4 million through a food stamp fraud scheme that dates back eight years.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 13 June 2018
• In all, state prosecutors allege, Murdaugh bilked his law firm, clients and the government out of more than $9 million.
  — Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 24 May 2023
• Son Andrew Madoff (Nathan Darrow) says there were thousands of victims bilked by his father.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2017
• Systems such as these are intentionally put in place to bilk the families.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 8 Jan. 2018
• The President has complained that Canada's trade policies have bilked US farmers and dairymen.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 13 June 2018
• Carton and his associates stand accused of bilking two investors out of at least $5.6 million.
  — Dan Gartland, PEOPLE.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• David Bloom has been charged with grand theft in Los Angeles, accused of bilking several people out of tens of thousands of dollars.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• How did an international scheme based in London to bilk old people out of cash through booze get brought down because of someone in Highland Heights?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
• And whatever gets spent on the team will almost certainly be repaid by a fan base eager to care after years of watching Loria pinch pennies and bilk the city.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• Duke had pleaded guilty to bilking his supporters and cheating on his income taxes.
  — NOLA.com, 28 May 2017
• In all, prosecutors said in a release that McFarland bilked over 80 investors of more than $26 million.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• But that’s not nearly enough to justify bilking taxpayers and saddling area residents with this handicap to their well-being.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024