shake down
Example Sentences
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The precedent also encourages plaintiff attorneys to shake down companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
So how will the "usual suspects", the "softies", the "newbies" and the "toadies" shake down?
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
In a statement to The Times, Barta dismissed Zucker’s lawsuit as another attempt to shake down his client for personal gain.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024
We read what Selin reads — Pushkin, Babel, Freud, Chekhov and, less happily for her, Martin Amis — and watch her ruthlessly shake down her life, comparing it to the lives she encounters in fiction.
From New York Times • May 9, 2022
She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
