How to Use embezzle in a Sentence

embezzle

verb

• He was caught embezzling money from his clients.
• He was convicted of embezzling.
• And the third group was those who embezzled from the food supply.
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 24 June 2024
• 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
• In 2009, she was found guilty of embezzling gift cards, which were donated to the city to be used for charity.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024
• Of course, the scammers had simply embezzled the money.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• But that all came to a halt in 1997 when he was convicted of embezzling and filing false tax returns.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• He is accused of embezzling funds from his family's firm and its clients.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
• It was allegedly embezzled and misused by Keino and the others.
  — Mutwiri Mutuota, The Seattle Times, 15 Oct. 2018
• In a related case, a jury found the mayor guilty of embezzling $500 worth of retail gift cards that were intended for the needy.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2024
• 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
• In March Khalifa Sall (no relation), the mayor of Dakar, was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling $3.4m.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• 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
• Along with his two sons, former dictator Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison in 2015 for embezzling state funds.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 31 May 2024
• 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
• Vasquez had embezzled money from her mother’s bank account multiple times in the past year.
  — Karen Kucher, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• The operation, the state officials explained, was a complex, tried-and-true way to embezzle funds.
  — Azam Ahmed and J. Jesus Esquivel, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Thomas went to prison for embezzling money from the nonprofit for a luxury SUV and other perks for himself.
  — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• Her remedy was to embezzle $17 million from the Danish state.
  — Time, 2 Mar. 2020
• And a former treasurer for the city of Houston, Alaska, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the city into his bank account.
  — Sarah Lapidus, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
• The department’s head of payroll pleaded guilty to embezzling thousands of dollars from the agency.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Centro and the city are both conducting investigations to find out whether any of the money embezzled from the nonprofit came from the city.
  — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Dec. 2017
• Much of the money raised was allegedly embezzled or laundered.
  — Shamim Adam, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• Yet the former county treasurer is accused of embezzling nearly $40 million over a decade.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
• Members of the national nomenklatura have been convicted of embezzling more than four and a half times as much money per case as members of the provincial nomenklatura and more than three times as much as those of the local nomenklatura.
  — Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024