How to Use embezzle in a Sentence

embezzle

verb

• He was caught embezzling money from his clients.
• He was convicted of embezzling.
• In 2010, the then-mayor was found guilty of embezzling gift cards meant for the poor.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• But weeks later, the firm did a full accounting that revealed Alex's decade-long scheme to embezzle from the firm and his clients.
  — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2023
• He is accused of embezzling funds from his family's firm and its clients.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
• But, sea pirates have been only one part of the fuel embezzling crisis.
  — Fox News, 1 Oct. 2019
• Two prison terms at Sing Sing and one in a Mexican prison for embezzling money are also part of the Flato legend.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 15 Apr. 2019
• Sure, on some level, the suggestion that Singh may have been embezzling is worse for Bankman-Fried — Singh wasn’t a money guy, and someone had to approve it.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
• All told, Hughes discovered that Phillips had embezzled at least a million dollars from the firm.
  — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• He was accused of conspiring with UAW cronies to embezzle more than $1 million.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2020
• He has not been charged but has been linked to a plot to embezzle union conference funds to buy expensive cigars, wines, rounds of golf and stays at exclusive villas.
  — Tom Krisher, chicagotribune.com, 30 Nov. 2019
• He has not been charged but has been linked to a plot to embezzle union conference funds to buy expensive cigars, wines, rounds of golf, and stays at exclusive villas.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• Her remedy was to embezzle $17 million from the Danish state.
  — Time, 2 Mar. 2020
• The department’s head of payroll pleaded guilty to embezzling thousands of dollars from the agency.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Much of the money raised was allegedly embezzled or laundered.
  — Shamim Adam, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• Williams had pleaded guilty in September to a charge of conspiracy to embezzle union funds.
  — al, 28 June 2021
• He was accused of forging documents and embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from her over a long time.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• The entrepreneur’s rags-to-riches story took a dark turn in 2004 when he was charged with tax evasion and embezzling company funds.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
• As promises were broken, and service declined, one mayor became linked to a scheme to embezzle millions of dollars and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• Heinze said there will always be the temptation to embezzle from Alaska’s large oil companies.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2019
• A month later, the pair were sued for allegedly using the split to embezzle money and have since faced a slew of other legal controversies.
  — Lanae Brody, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• He is accused of having embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• Then he was fired, having made the ultimate faux pas, embezzling thousands of dollars from his employer.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2019
• They are protected from embezzling only by the character of those who transport.
  — Barak Richman, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2020
• Not long after, alleged that Low bought the stunning showplace with money embezzled from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2020
• A month after separating, the couple was sued for using their divorce to embezzle money that was supposed to go to victims killed in a 2018 Boeing plane crash.
  — Andrea Towers, EW.com, 17 June 2021
• He was accused of isolating Lee from family and friends to embezzle art, cash and other assets valued at more than $5 million.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2022
• He was sentenced to life in prison without parole and still faces a slew of financial charges related to embezzling millions of dollars from clients and his family’s law firm.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2023
• A month later, he and Erika were sued for allegedly using their divorce to embezzle money intended for the families of victims killed in the 2018 plane crash.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021
• Because the charges of conspiracy to embezzle union funds and to defraud the United States were filed as an information, Robinson is expected to plead guilty.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024