How to Use blackmail in a Sentence

blackmail

noun

• She was a victim of blackmail.
• The servant extorted blackmail from her employer.
• Around 200 are still pawns in a high-stakes game of blackmail.
  — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2023
• But this tale of the press, blackmail, and romance is pure Mank.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• This opens up Trump to blackmail, as does the fabled pee tape.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018
• The stench of blackmail hangs over the whole enterprise.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• The knight didn’t seem to take too kindly to Joffrey’s threats of blackmail.
  — ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
• Thank you for standing up against this kind of blackmail.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 6 June 2022
• In the Danish version, this reads as an act of blackmail.
  — Elissa Suh, Vogue, 28 June 2024
• North Korea has a track record of cheating and of blackmail.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 5 Jan. 2018
• The five-year contract with the haulers (the basis of the mayor’s blackmail of St. Paul voters) is years too long.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
• Be kind and fierce and don’t bend an inch to this emotional blackmail.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Trapped in the throes of a blackmail plot, Sylvia doesn't have any interest in a romance.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• So yeah, Otis noticed the blackmail scheme and brought it to Grayson, who murdered him, then tried to frame him for the Robin Hood scheme.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• And many fear that would mean giving the North the ultimate blackmail tool — and a way to keep the United States at bay.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Oct. 2017
• The suit says Williams did not bring up the blackmail during this discussion.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
• The blackmail and harassment against her and the Ladies in White continue.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Sep. 2024
• In the movie's second half Mia tries to blackmail Liu by threatening to give her cell-phone video to the police.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
• It’s been proven in a lot of our research and others’ research that her kids were used as blackmail.
  — Chris Gardner, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2021
• The same sort of thinking turns out to be a motivating factor in the movie's blackmail ring.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 21 Mar. 2018
• The revenge plan for Zach comes after Tyler and Cyrus blackmail Marcus.
  — refinery29.com, 18 May 2018
• That’s why Google’s decision last week doesn’t amount to blackmail.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2019
• All Martha's plots turned on blackmail; each of her denouements was a study in blackmail foiled.
  — Joan Didion, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2024
• Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• Collins concluded that a vote against the nominee would seem like weakness in the face of blackmail.
  — John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2020
• The digital part of it is the new twist in terms of taking a hostage, but the rest of it is the same sort of blackmail tactics that have plagued mankind forever.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Murder and blackmail follow in the comedy that's been made famous as a board game and movie.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Apr. 2022
• That includes the woman who testified to the blackmail photo and the woman who sparked the Facebook post.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2021
• The search for Alfredo will reveal a sordid past fraught with greed, blackmail and a pile of gambling debts.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
• The rapper also seemingly used shame and blackmail to keep people from speaking out.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024