How to Use bribe in a Sentence

bribe

1 of 2 noun

• I offered the children a bribe for finishing their homework.
• Tom Homan did not take a bribe.
  — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
• Smith told him the bribe payments were on the way.
  — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
• What did Trump exchange for the bribes?
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
• Have you ever been offered a bribe?
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• No job, no bribe, no billion dollars.
  — Najwa Jamal, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2025
• But his mother has died, left behind for lack of bribe money for a visa.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• Beasley, for his part, allegedly received bribes to pay off his debts.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 June 2026
• With bribes and luck, the man somehow succeeded.
  — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
• She was also charged with collecting bribes.
  — Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
• Many of them were caught red-handed accepting bribes and sentenced to prison.
  — Daria Kaleniuk, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025
• Kickbacks and bribes are perhaps the most obvious place to start.
  — Meily Perez, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026
• The bribe amounts increased over the years as the Sinaloa cartel grew in size and power.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Some of those bribes, prosecutors say, came in the form of envelopes stuffed with cash.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
• That’s led them to threats and bribes to try and goad people in, only to yield predictable outcomes.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• For every official who accepts a bribe, there is someone who paid it.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
• Two city planners were convicted of taking bribes.
  — Kayti Burt, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
• Those were the bribes Samantha helped sign off on that her uncle Gene procured.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 28 July 2023
• Sliwa claims to have been offered ten million dollars, across seven bribes, to step aside.
  — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
• The gift drew criticism from Democrats and others who said the jet looked like a bribe to Trump.
  — Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
• Workers will be able to relocate from the burning universe of bribes to the fiery one of taxes.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
• Manuel Chang is accused of pocketing at least $5 million in bribes.
  — James Fanelli, WSJ, 13 July 2023
• You were not accused of paying a bribe personally.
  — Hernan Lopez, Variety, 20 Dec. 2025
• Bystanders weighed in with similar accounts, saying many of them have had to pay bribes to avoid arrest.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Creators are also all too eager to sell out their followers with #ads that might in other venues be called bribes.
  — WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• At first glance, neither player seemed to be vulnerable to bribes from gamblers.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
• As with any new process or routine, your dog will need time (and lots of tasty bribes) to adjust to and accept getting their nails trimmed by you.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• It is alleged that some of the police officers received bribes from the winning bidders.
  — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
• While organized crime groups appear to have endless cash to pay for guns, bribes, and more, the government is on a tight budget.
  — Regina Garcia Cano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• After refusing to pay the bribe, armed men put a hood over Hernandez's head and took him away in the back of a pickup truck.
  — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023

bribe

2 of 2 verb

• We bribed the children with candy.
• They bribed him to keep quiet about the incident.
• She was arrested for attempting to bribe a judge.
• Either that or the wrong people had been bribed.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
• Asha was bribing people to use a scale!
  — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
• There's no shame in a little bit of bribing to get the job done!
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 25 Dec. 2025
• An owner is alleged to have tried to bribe his head coach to lose games.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2022
• Alexis says this isn't the first time she's had to bribe her daughter.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
• Some patients were bribed with cash or drugs, state officials have said.
  — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
• There’s a guitar out there, 12-string guitar, that my dad bribed me with.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Members of Congress were bribed.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
• Please, holler at your boy, soften my enemies, bribe the devil.
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• Nearby, deputies bribed a prisoner to serve as their enforcer.
  — USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
• But even so, a tabloid reporter bribed a nurse to say that Audrey had only three months to live.
  — Town & Country, 28 June 2023
• The suit also alleged that Minaj went as far as to bribe Hough.
  — NBC News, 14 Jan. 2022
• Sam Woodward Did your parents ever bribe you to get good grades?
  — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
• Some kids run at the sound of running water in the bathtub; others need to be bribed just to look at a vegetable.
  — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 16 Jan. 2026
• The Italian Carabinieri, who manned the borders, weren’t hard to bribe.
  — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Macey was charged with a conspiracy to bribe Costanzo.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
• Nur is also accused of bribing a juror in the case and later pleaded guilty to that charge.
  — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
• Maybe this special group wields political power and can buy, bribe or lawyer their way out of any legal jam.
  — Michael J. Lee, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2023
• Judy is caught by a prison guard, and goes on to bribe her with One Direction concert tickets.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2023
• Among them were claims that the board was bribing students to protest and funding the entire event, Simmons said.
  — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Jan. 2026
• Instead, the fishermen said, outsiders tried to bribe them, and others threatened them.
  — Palabra, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
• Don’t bribe—empathize Bribing picky eaters with dessert is a common tactic parents use to get to the end of the meal.
  — Taylor Grothe, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
• Inside jobs might entail knowing whom to bribe or pay off and then how to launder the money and keep it safe from nosy inspectors.
  — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• The owners bribed people with HIV to serve as pretend patients.
  — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Perfect for a pair of headphones—or a small amount of chocolate to bribe my daughter to behave in the security line.
  — Juliet Izon, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2022
• Parents paid Singer to bribe college officials and to find ways to cheat on the tests, boosting their children's scores.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Police were dispatched to the scene and the owner eventually lured the pet back down to the ground by bribing it with a cookie.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025