How to Use bribe in a Sentence

bribe

1 of 2 noun

• I offered the children a bribe for finishing their homework.
• The bribe amounts increased over the years as the Sinaloa cartel grew in size and power.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2023
• But most of the jury thought that the USC admission and the scholarship weren’t part of the bribe or the scheme.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Those were the bribes Samantha helped sign off on that her uncle Gene procured.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 28 July 2023
• But his mother has died, left behind for lack of bribe money for a visa.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Some of those bribes, prosecutors say, came in the form of envelopes stuffed with cash.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• That’s led them to threats and bribes to try and goad people in, only to yield predictable outcomes.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• After refusing to pay the bribe, armed men put a hood over Hernandez's head and took him away in the back of a pickup truck.
  — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023
• As with any new process or routine, your dog will need time (and lots of tasty bribes) to adjust to and accept getting their nails trimmed by you.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• This particular trope about Biden and Ukraine and the bribe that wasn’t is unlikely to die off swiftly.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
• Manuel Chang is accused of pocketing at least $5 million in bribes.
  — James Fanelli, WSJ, 13 July 2023
• The developments where the defendants allegedly sought bribes are in all five of the city’s boroughs.
  — CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• While organized crime groups appear to have endless cash to pay for guns, bribes, and more, the government is on a tight budget.
  — Regina Garcia Cano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Bystanders weighed in with similar accounts, saying many of them have had to pay bribes to avoid arrest.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Creators are also all too eager to sell out their followers with #ads that might in other venues be called bribes.
  — WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• The case builds on the conviction last year of one of the Twitter insiders who took bribes from Saudi intelligence.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Justice Clarence Thomas asked whether an official could resign for an afternoon, just long enough to take a bribe.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• In 1980, a member was expelled for seeking a bribe in exchange for tanking a piece of legislation.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• In turn, the official said, owners needed to pay bribes to supervisors, with amounts based on an orchard’s size.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega César Rodríguez, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Hood had worked for a subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, but rather than being found guilty of bribery, Hood was the one who notified authorities about the bribes.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2023
• The company since has said the payment was a bribe, although Randazzo denies wrongdoing and hasn’t been charged.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• Shockingly, one in 10 Amazon customers has been offered bribes, from gift cards to free products, in exchange for a five-star review.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The monopoly in turn provided a revenue stream for the bribes, prosecutors said.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• Some of those bribes, prosecutors allege, came in the form of envelopes stuffed with cash, gold bars, and luxury vehicles.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
• Recruiters have been accused of taking bribes and aiding draft-age men trying to leave the country to avoid military service.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• He has also been accused of accepting bribes in exchange for doing favors for the government of Qatar.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• He was later accused of accepting bribes and sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, part of Xi’s sweeping crackdown on corruption.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• The pipeline reopened only after the anonymous hackers received a $4.4 million bribe.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Feb. 2023
• The senator has also been accused of accepting bribes in exchange for doing favors for the government of Qatar.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024
• The phrase, popularized by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, offers the grim choice of taking a bribe or being shot – a possible warning to prison staff.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024

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bribe

2 of 2 verb

• We bribed the children with candy.
• They bribed him to keep quiet about the incident.
• She was arrested for attempting to bribe a judge.
• The Italian Carabinieri, who manned the borders, weren’t hard to bribe.
  — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• An owner is alleged to have tried to bribe his head coach to lose games.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2022
• Some try to bribe or charm their way out of enforcement.
  — Curbed, 30 Aug. 2023
• The suit also alleged that Minaj went as far as to bribe Hough.
  — NBC News, 14 Jan. 2022
• There’s a guitar out there, 12-string guitar, that my dad bribed me with.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• So that takes away the incentive to bribe people or to put pressure on them.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
• But even so, a tabloid reporter bribed a nurse to say that Audrey had only three months to live.
  — Town & Country, 28 June 2023
• Matt Ampolsky’s response was to bribe me to erase facts.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2021
• The owners bribed people with HIV to serve as pretend patients.
  — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Judy is caught by a prison guard, and goes on to bribe her with One Direction concert tickets.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2023
• In a second slide to the post, Gellar also shared a video of Jada where the star explained having to bribe her son to present at the Oscars.
  — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• On the next round, Larry learns that Lori was able to secure a coveted tee time by bribing the starter with $50.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• Chase, the troublemaker, tries and fails to bribe his little brother Grayson to keep a secret with $100.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
• Parents paid Singer to bribe college officials and to find ways to cheat on the tests, boosting their children's scores.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
• When all else fails, bribe with lollipops, cookies or candy.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2022
• As long as conniving CEOs don’t bribe their way into the parallel world to get hold of kaiju eggs . . .
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• Perfect for a pair of headphones—or a small amount of chocolate to bribe my daughter to behave in the security line.
  — Juliet Izon, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2022
• The cash was flown on a private jet to Cameroon, where it was used to bribe officials in the country’s national oil and gas companies.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• Instead, the fishermen said, outsiders tried to bribe them, and others threatened them.
  — Palabra, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
• About two months after that, Hammer was stopped for speeding in Oklahoma and tried to bribe the officer, the agent said.
  — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
• Inside jobs might entail knowing whom to bribe or pay off and then how to launder the money and keep it safe from nosy inspectors.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Combs, who was arrested with two nine-millimeter guns in his car, was charged with four weapons charges and for bribing his driver to claim that the guns were his own.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• Prison guards are generally not well paid, and they are often bribed to assist in the smuggling or simply to look the other way.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• That's when one officer stepped in with a unique plan: bribing the dog with pumpkin muffins the officer's wife had baked for his patrol shift.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• All that’s to say, Hoshikawa is already planning on bribing her sister, a Parsons design student, to hem it for her.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 20 July 2023
• Maybe this special group wields political power and can buy, bribe or lawyer their way out of any legal jam.
  — Michael J. Lee, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2023
• But a fifth defendant, a former New Jersey insurance broker, pleaded guilty this month to trying to bribe the couple with the Mercedes.
  — Tracey Tully, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024