bribe

Example Sentences

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Hammani said he was let go because his brother paid a bribe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

It was a $16 million bribe paid to a bully.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2025

He and his wife Carla Bruni face another possible trial over allegations that they tried to bribe a key prosecution witness in the Libya campaign financing case with the help of a paparazzi boss.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

He said his own mother used to bribe him with Pringles to get him to take swim lessons.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

One senator denounced the various “illegal plots, counterplots, espionage, decoys, dictographs” that were being used not to “detect and prosecute crime but...to shield profiteers, bribe takers and favorites.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann