Explore Extort through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like take or hook. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Extort in a sentence
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Extort meaning
- To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
- To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
- To twist outwards.
Synonyms of Extort
Using Extort
- The main meaning on this page is: To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. | To obtain by means of the offense of extortion. | To twist outwards.
- Useful related words include: take, hook, rob, pluck.
- In the example corpus, extort often appears in combinations such as: to extort, extort money, extort him.
Context around Extort
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 9 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Extort
- In this selection, "extort" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, arrest, people, fuh, money, victims and retirement stand out and add context to how "extort" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include airports to extort money and attempting to extort money from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "extort" sits close to words such as aac, abdallah and abdication, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with extort
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In Anambra, Man Recounts Ordeal As Police Arrest, Extort People Who. (11 words)
He also accused Cassie of trying to extort him for $30 million. (12 words)
The reports stated that the officers set up the checkpoints purely to extort motorists. (14 words)
Audio tapes of questionable origin and editing sparked a controversial couple of weeks earlier this year, as Reed and the city brought legal action against a local activist that Reed claimed was attempting to extort money from the city. (39 words)
In this case ten other persons are still under investigation for their role in the terror conspiracy, which included plans to eliminate certain leaders, singers and businessmen to terrorise people, extort money from them and create a sensation. (38 words)
Police will allege Vuong was kidnapped from his influencer girlfriend's Smithfield home six days earlier, and allegedly bound and tortured as his accused captors tried to extort her wealthy crypto trader relative for his safe return. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
And that's why this episode's final scene, in which Paulie savagely beats Jason to extort retirement home funding for Nucci, delivers the perfect punchline.
Audio tapes of questionable origin and editing sparked a controversial couple of weeks earlier this year, as Reed and the city brought legal action against a local activist that Reed claimed was attempting to extort money from the city.
Diddy claims Cassie is trying to extort him with rape lawsuit because he 'refused to pay her $30million' as.
Fisher is looking to leave Oakland because, after several years of trying, he ultimately couldn’t extort the amount of public money from the city of Oakland and the state of California he desired.
He also accused Cassie of trying to extort him for $30 million.
In Anambra, Man Recounts Ordeal As Police Arrest, Extort People Who.
Insomniac hacking incident is obviously awful, but I honestly don’t know what would be worse: it being done by rabid fans or just criminals looking to extort Sony.
In this case ten other persons are still under investigation for their role in the terror conspiracy, which included plans to eliminate certain leaders, singers and businessmen to terrorise people, extort money from them and create a sensation.
It’s not uncommon for ransomware actors to publish stolen information as part of efforts to extort victims.
Pakistan’s aviation body chief has accused the customs and security officials of harassing passengers at the country’s airports to extort money.
Police will allege Vuong was kidnapped from his influencer girlfriend's Smithfield home six days earlier, and allegedly bound and tortured as his accused captors tried to extort her wealthy crypto trader relative for his safe return.
The lawless area is controlled by local gangs who often extort and rob the migrants and regularly rape girls and women trying to cross.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Monday they were able to track down the suspect, Sammeiso Lewis, after he tried to extort the victim using a phone of a man he met on a dating website.
The reports stated that the officers set up the checkpoints purely to extort motorists.
This type of “pay and exit” strategy is an effective way for criminals to extort victims if they can obtain the validator signing keys.
Those who deposited all of their cash or 90% have been left stranded as the cashless policy does not relate in the transportation system, market or some filling stations who extort their customers.
But he alleged that the driver then tried to 'extort him' by asking him to get the money out of an ATM.
But in this case, the freight forwarders said they perceived an alleged unholy union among the transporters, NSC and Nigerian Ports Authority to extort them and shipping companies.
But rather than surrender, they take the device, and cleverly use it to extort the rest of the world.
Dat is an old trick which youngsters use to use fuh extort money from motorists.
Common combinations with extort
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: