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

"My fate," he says, with some sense of the incongruity of the thing, "extorts from me a talent of sport, which I had thought to hide in a napkin."

From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir