How to Use extort in a Sentence

extort

verb

• The criminals extorted large sums of money from their victims.
• He was arrested for extorting bribes.
• Thieves and gangs that extort businesses and kill those who don’t pay roam its cratered streets.
  — Sonia Pérez D. and Christopher Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• The texter implied that the artist was lying about the 2017 encounter with Brown, with the goal of extorting him for cash.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• At the same time unions used the pandemic to extort money from Congress.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• The kind that is controlled by an out-of-touch elite who fiddle and extort while the economy burns.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• And to subjugate them and extort money from them (Quran 9:29).
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• One of his lawyers has accused her of extorting money from him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• And greed, in trying to extort a million dollars from J&J.
  — Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• Legend has it that the place was used to extort, torture and kill those who crossed the mob, and the spirits of those unlucky victims still haunt the place today.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• In both cases, Bauer has said that the woman is lying in order to extort money from him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• The trio were at the home into the early morning hours in an attempt to extort money and other valuables from him.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2024
• Last year, before the charges were announced, a spokesperson for Trump argued that Daniels had, in fact, extorted him.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
• The union resists reform while using the threat of walkouts and strikes to extort higher salaries and bigger pensions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Some of the people who paid the man would use the photos to extort the women and cyberstalk them, according to officials.
  — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
• The pair then used the data belonging to victims to extort them in exchange for not publishing it.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
• The family owns an auto repair shop in the southern state of Michoacán, where they were extorted and feared for their lives.
  — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 27 June 2024
• Falwell said his wife had an affair with Granda and claimed that Granda was now trying to extort the couple.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2020
• Chicks, pups, and infants may beg, cry, or whine to extort food from their parents—but these efforts aren’t as direct as what occurs in utero.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• Truitt refused to give Wright or Lemba the visa and attempted to extort money from the Wrights in exchange for the visa, the affidavit says.
  — Andrew Clark, Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2019
• Even if victims do decide to pay, hackers can still keep the data and try to extort companies for a second time.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 July 2024
• No one can extort billions of dollars from murderers and rapists.
  — Onkar Ghate, Orange County Register, 1 Sep. 2024
• Among them was his scheme to extort millions of dollars from Nike, for which he was found guilty by a jury on three federal counts and sentenced to 30 months in prison.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 May 2024
• The Tuohy family is claiming that Oher is trying to extort them.
  — Mack Muldofsky, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2024
• Gang members have seen them as easy pickings and have kidnapped some migrants to extort them and their families for cash.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• One girl told police Nance raped her and tried to extort her for nude photographs, according to the affidavit.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 12 July 2022
• The man charged with attempting to extort state Sen. Lauren Book was sentenced Tuesday to one year and one day in prison and followed by 10 years of probation.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2022
• Jones says the woman is attempting to extort him, a claim her attorneys deny.
  — Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2022
• The fake images were used to extort at least one victim on Instagram for real nude images or money, said the parent of one of the victims.
  — Emmanuelle Saliba, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Typically, scammers will gain access to these accounts to help steal someone's identity, share posts about their scams or to extort a user into paying a ransom demand.
  — Sam Sabin, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024