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.
• The kind that is controlled by an out-of-touch elite who fiddle and extort while the economy burns.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Private equity goons have been buying up physician groups in strategic sectors where people have no choice but to take out-of-network care to be able to extort as many people as possible.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 31 Aug. 2020
• That opens the door to hackers exploiting a user's contacts, like by sending them malware through Zoom invites or creating scenarios to extort them.
  — NBC News, 3 Apr. 2020
• Trump was impeached not because the left is in the grips of a power mania but because the president attempted to extort political favors from a foreign leader.
  — Editorial Washington Post, Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
• Blader said Johnson sought to extort the business owners by taking advantage of protests and unrest following the death of George Floyd.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2020
• Avenatti was convicted in February of attempting to extort money from Nike.
  — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• 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
• At the same time unions used the pandemic to extort money from Congress.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Criminal penalties could include fines and potential jail time, ranging from up to a year to up to three years depending on if the individual spreading the images intends to profit off them, or harass or extort the victim.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2024
• The woman Carruth failed to extort recorded his not-so-subtle solicitations and shared them with law enforcement, according to a federal indictment in the Eastern District of Arkansas.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024