- present participle of bribe.
bribing
Example Sentences
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Also on trial, oil industry executive Olatimbo Ayinde, 54, denies one count of bribery and another count of bribing a foreign public official.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
Next came Didius Julianus, a senatorial aristocrat who achieved the throne by bribing the guardsmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
The leader of one of South Korea's largest cult-like churches stood trial on Monday accused of bribing the country's former first lady with gifts including a designer handbag and a diamond necklace.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
In 2016 the Brazilian construction giant admitted to bribing officials across Latin America and parts of Africa in order to obtain construction contracts.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
Major Christian Piercy had fled Philadelphia after his son and an apprentice caught the fever, bribing a stagecoach driver to take him and his family to south Jersey.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
