How to Use extort in a Sentence

extort

verb

• The criminals extorted large sums of money from their victims.
• He was arrested for extorting bribes.
• To hack their accounts in a bid to extort them for nude selfies.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 25 June 2019
• Thieves and gangs that extort businesses and kill those who don’t pay roam its cratered streets.
  — Sonia Pérez D. and Christopher Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Armed men sit in the shade at makeshift checkpoints and take turns to extort money from passers-by.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• One of his lawyers has accused her of extorting money from him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Epstein also claimed at the time that his cellmate had tried to extort him.
  — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
• The hackers then used the photos to try to extort money from people.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
• The kind that is controlled by an out-of-touch elite who fiddle and extort while the economy burns.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• Maybe River Cartwright will try to extort him someday.
  — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
• No one can extort billions of dollars from murderers and rapists.
  — Onkar Ghate, Orange County Register, 1 Sep. 2024
• Bradley would say the mother — poor, young, unwed — must have been trying to extort money from him.
  — Alan Judd, Doctors & Sex Abuse, 6 Jan. 2017
• An attempt was made to extort monies from me and the Smiling Buddha.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2018
• At the same time unions used the pandemic to extort money from Congress.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• His fortune also faced some hits as he was allegedly extorted.
  — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
• All these cameras are good for is extorting money out of drivers without making the streets any safer.
  — Dan King, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
• In both cases, Bauer has said that the woman is lying in order to extort money from him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• These groups are extorting fleeing civilians for safe passage, Saraf claims.
  — Callum Sutherland, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
• Gang members have seen them as easy pickings and have kidnapped some migrants to extort them and their families for cash.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Gonzales has denied the affair in the past, and has claimed he is being extorted.
  — Fin Daniel Gómez, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
• The trio were at the home into the early morning hours in an attempt to extort money and other valuables from him.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 July 2024
• The pair then used the data belonging to victims to extort them in exchange for not publishing it.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
• Even if victims do decide to pay, hackers can still keep the data and try to extort companies for a second time.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 July 2024
• The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026
• Chicks, pups, and infants may beg, cry, or whine to extort food from their parents—but these efforts aren’t as direct as what occurs in utero.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• The traveler confessed to extorting others to commit self-harm, the memo said.
  — Curt Devine, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
• The school board has for 40 years used the threat of teacher cuts to extort more funds from the Legislature.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
• The necessity of it to my defence against a more heinous charge could alone have extorted from me so painful an indecorum.
  — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026
• The union resists reform while using the threat of walkouts and strikes to extort higher salaries and bigger pensions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Marcus Lamb also alleged that three people tried to extort money from him to stay quiet.
  — ABC News, 8 May 2026