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How to use extort in a sentence

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All the unions did was form cartels and use the threat of violence to keep competitors at bay and extort some wealth from the capitalists.
The administration proceeded to extort large sums of money, ostensibly to repay this cost, and the states ended up following suit.
The two were eventually netted by the FBI, but the attempt to extort money from her was hard on her and her children.
He gives them the single best reason to extort the virtues of the death penalty over a life sentence.
This would bring an end to his many attempts to extort money from organisations on the flimsiest of pretexts.
I did not know that the governor and his cronies were attempting to use the process to extort money and favors in a brazen pay-to-play scheme.
The protection money and ransoms governments or insurgents extort from oil companies do not prolong the violence.
Others are kidnapped and killed to extort lucrative ransoms from their families.
There are many registered cases of police using the threat of arrest to extort a lot of money from the husband's family.
The rebels systematically practiced torture in order to extort money, punish non-cooperation, and intimidate others, the special rapporteur said.
This morning the proprietors instructed a senior Bulawayo lawyer to respond to the police's attempt to extort money in this way.
At checkpoints throughout the province, the security forces openly extort bribes.
Their threats extort facilities and subsidies from the regimes that increase their strength and influence.
Federal forces routinely extort money from detainees' relatives as a condition for release.
In my opinion, this eagerness to extort information does not help the defence of our personal protection.
Women who currently work the streets are putting themselves in danger not from the punters although some are dodgy but the pimps who extort these women.
They are said to be well equipped, and wealthy enough not to extort money from civilians.
There have been instances where organized crime has used these networks to extort money from website owners from around the world.
The police often use torture or the threat of torture to extort money.
The class in power will often coercively extract and extort far more labour out of the debtor than the fair value of the credit they received.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then, after a time, when wanting to extort again, he went on to another place.
I have since thought we were ironed merely to extort this arrangement from us.
She was trying to extort a promise that she should appear in its pages, which, as we all remember, she did.
How is it possible to extort a meaning from all this jargon about 'devil's seats,' 'death's heads,' and 'bishop's hotels?
What would she do with a secret she had taken such hazards to extort?
This woman is some impudent impostor, who wants to extort money out of me.
Now I won't allude to conspiring to extort money or anything of that sort, because we are men and women of the world here, and our object is to make things pleasant.
This horrid species of torture may remind the reader of that to which the Spaniards subjected Guatimozin, in order to extort a discovery of his concealed wealth.
The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
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