- present tense form of extort (3rd person singular).
extorts
Example Sentences
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“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021
“Here you have someone trying to lawfully work and support their families, and then someone turns around and extorts them,” Erzen said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017
This means, for example, that a U.S. senator who extorts money is no more immune to being charged with this crime than an ordinary American.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2017
The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017
These over, the truth of history extorts the admission, that the space around the bar became the grand rendezvous.
From The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe
