Extortionate in a sentence

Cornerstone has rejected the allegations and instead alleged that Mordecai Edwards has made monetary demands they view as “extortionate”.

Once the victims agreed for the work to take place on their home, it was then completed to an extremely poor standard and the pricing was extortionate.

And last month our local democracy reporter Adrian Zorzut went undercover to investigate how unregulated pedicab drivers are charging extortionate prices for a ride in London.

Fans couldn't believe the £1.6m price tag, regardless of what was included, and took to social media to slam the extortionate experience.

It served to protect loyal (or lazy or even unaware) customers that didn’t shop around from being slugged with extortionate power bills.

Today the estate has just two – Nisa at the top end and One Stop at the bottom, operated by Tesco and known locally as Harrods due to “the extortionate prices it charges for basic goods” as MP Paul Maynard put it to the Commons last year.

We don't recommend buying one from an eBay seller though as prices are extortionate, and you will not be able to go through Apple's personalised in-store setup process.

With train reliability at a dire low, passengers forced to pay extortionate fares and often overcrowded carriages, few could deny that the railways are broken.

Extortionate "taxes" are also imposed on adults operating in those gold mines.

Its attempt to acquire Grubhub - which has a history of exploiting local restaurants through deceptive tactics and extortionate fees - marks a new low in pandemic profiteering," he said.

Or for that matter, its jailing and extortionate of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, despite the Obama administration granting her clemency.

That’s a serious upfront expense with the extortionate rates being charged by private clinics.

His desire to catch the game overrides both his shoestring budgeting and his willingness to reject a ticket scalper who sells game tickets at extortionate prices.

In a spectacularly snarky statement, Huawei accuses Mr Oliveira of threatening the company unless it paid an "extortionate amount of money".

NHS Lothian has moved to scrap "extortionate" charges to patients for watching television at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Of course, protesters are tired of living amid trash and extortionate fees, but what they’re actually railing against is the system of politics and factions that presides over this mess.

Of course, the downside to investing in extortionate stockings is that their price tags often far exceed their price-per-wear.

Only after some days did Mme San Jose get them to accept that it would not be possible to run up a bill of 11 quadrillion euros in a lifetime of mobile telephone calls, even at the customary extortionate rates.

You pay extortionate tips to servers because there is no minimum wage and a lot of them make so little per hour to be there that they don’t even bother cashing their salary cheques.

The 56-year-old from Harrow converted properties without planning permission into cramped and dangerous flats, while charging tenants 'extortionate' rent.