How to Use blackmail in a Sentence

blackmail

noun

• She was a victim of blackmail.
• The servant extorted blackmail from her employer.
• 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
• And then there's the fact that Chic has some pretty decent blackmail on the Coopers involving a dead drug dealer.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 4 Oct. 2018
• The episode illustrates one way the Kremlin has blackmail material over the president.
  — Aaron Rupar, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
• But the still-under-investigation blackmail plot marked one more in a string of escalating personal attacks against him.
  — Joshua Goodman, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2019
• The show is sadly coming to an end in 2017, which means opportunities for said blackmail and deaths are quite limited.
  — Seventeen, 4 Dec. 2018
• Choi's legal representative said that Choi believes the woman’s allegations are a form of blackmail.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019
• Elsie tried to blackmail Charlotte, which ended up being a fatal mistake, as the head of the Delos board answered Else's gambit with two bullets to the chest.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The suit says Williams did not bring up the blackmail during this discussion.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Gardener Dennis had multiple stab wounds to the chest and a blackmail note in his pocket.
  — Mandi Bierly, TVLine, 7 July 2024
• Portia’s furious that Penelope’s been undermining her efforts to save their family from ruin and urges her not to tell Colin about the blackmail.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024