Sentence example with the word 'extortion'

extortion

armed robbery, blackmail, claim, duty, highway robbery, insistent demand, order, rending, rush, surcharge, usury, wresting

Definition n. an exorbitant charge

Last update: December 14, 2016


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Nowadays extortion is extensive in commercial towns.   [Please select]

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He tried by every means to develop and encourage commerce; he had the land accurately measured for the purpose of rightly adjusting taxation; he gave the strictest instructions to prevent extortion on the part of the taxgatherers, and in many other respects displayed an enlightened and equitable policy.   [Please select]

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The robbery is, no doubt, for the purpose of extortion.   [Please select]

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In order to raise it, they resorted to extortion and corruption.   [Please select]

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Peter; and the "Eternal City" was the scene of folly, dissipation, and clerical extortion.   [Please select]

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Extortion, pitiless extortion is making havoc in the land.   [Please select]

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As to the second accusation, relating to acts of extortion, he experienced more difficulties.   [Please select]

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Under Eldon, he says, 'equity has become an instrument of fraud and extortion.'   [Please select]

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Blake hurriedly explained the attempted extortion of which Jack had been guilty.   [Please select]

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, who lends a thing for a price exceeding the cost of repairs (the repairs being charged to the lender, and representing products which he exchanges for other products), is guilty of swindling and extortion.   [Please select]

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