On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Bribes. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Bribes meaning
plural of bribe
Using Bribes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bribe
- In the example corpus, bribes often appears in combinations such as: bribes to, bribes from, taking bribes.
Context around Bribes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bribes
- In this selection, "bribes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, paid, pay, taking, continued, paid and payments stand out and add context to how "bribes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allegedly receiving bribes from burundian and collect handsome bribes to keep. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bribes" sits close to words such as antique, blending and copenhagen, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bribes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders, or take bribes. (8 words)
Many of the accusations surround officers targeting foreigners and demanding excessive bribes. (12 words)
And then there were the bribes he took from an organized crime figure. (13 words)
In one of the video clips, a Punjab Home Guard (PHG) Bahadar Singh, who was attached with Dhaliwal, is purportedly heard saying he used to collect bribes on the officer’s behalf from transporters and hand over the amount to the officer every month. (44 words)
However, Will also learns that the conspiracy is essentially an open secret at the facility; his fellow marshals are all aware of it and collect handsome bribes to keep their heads turned the other way, and everyone expects him to do the same. (43 words)
Former Fox executive Hernan Lopez (second from right) leaves federal court after his conviction for paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to nab broadcasting rights to the World Cup and other top soccer matches Thursday in New York. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Also, a smaller percentage of Nigerians that had contact with public official paid bribes, or were asked to pay bribes, those who did pay bribes continued to do so quite frequently.
For South Africa, the sums of bribes were quite large, we are talking about a total of $350 million of bribes paid to senior politicians, senior officials, senior corporate executives and of course intermediaries.
A former federal corrections officer has pleaded guilty to taking bribes in exchange for providing illegal contraband to people detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park.
And then there were the bribes he took from an organized crime figure.
Artisanal cobalt is bought on-site from the miners by roving traders, some former miners who’ve amassed enough capital to pay for a motorcycle or pickup, along with the bribes and permits necessary to pass through checkpoints.
A whistleblower on Tuesday alleged that some security guards at the O2 Brixton Academy in London regularly accepted bribes to allow people in without tickets.
Biden was withholding much-needed aid to Ukraine in exchange for bribes for Shokin’s removal, Shokin believes.
Former Fox executive Hernan Lopez (second from right) leaves federal court after his conviction for paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to nab broadcasting rights to the World Cup and other top soccer matches Thursday in New York.
Granger had argued that he needed first to increase his and his ministers’ salaries in order to remove the temptation of bribes.
Hana’s company was used to send bribes payments to a business set up by Menendez’s wife called Strategic International Business Consultants, LLC, prosecutors allege.
He paid bribes to evade visa controls at the airport, boarded a flight to Rio de Janeiro and, somewhere over the Atlantic, threw his fake passport in the lavatory trash.
He went first to his home city of Matadi, a port 200 miles to the southwest, and then paid bribes to slip across the adjacent border with Angola.
However, Will also learns that the conspiracy is essentially an open secret at the facility; his fellow marshals are all aware of it and collect handsome bribes to keep their heads turned the other way, and everyone expects him to do the same.
In 2016, CalCoastNews first reported allegations that former SLO County Supervisor Adam Hill was asking marijuana business owners to pay bribes in return for favorable votes.
In a related development, the Malawi Police Service arrested two of its officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on corruption charges for allegedly receiving bribes from Burundian nationals to influence release of confiscated property.
In one of the video clips, a Punjab Home Guard (PHG) Bahadar Singh, who was attached with Dhaliwal, is purportedly heard saying he used to collect bribes on the officer’s behalf from transporters and hand over the amount to the officer every month.
Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders, or take bribes.
Lawyers representing the federal government told the court that P&ID officials paid bribes to secure the contract.
Many of the accusations surround officers targeting foreigners and demanding excessive bribes.
Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes” in exchange for the senator’s influence.
Common combinations with bribes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bribes to 45×
- bribes from 23×
- taking bribes 19×
- in bribes 19×
- bribes and 15×
- bribes in 11×
- accepting bribes 11×
- paid bribes 9×
- of bribes 9×
- bribes for 9×