How to Use extortion in a Sentence

extortion

noun

• He was arrested and charged with extortion.
• One of my friends went one step further and called this extortion.
  — cleveland, 14 June 2021
• Which might have seemed like a steep bond for an extortion letter.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• The foreign firms that were brought in were ripe for extortion.
  — Jessica Camille Aguirre, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• Suarez is charged with child abuse and neglect and threats of extortion.
  — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
• Van der Sloot was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of extortion.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Van der Sloot is charged with wire fraud and extortion, and was advised of his rights.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 9 June 2023
• This bullying at best, but much more akin to extortion.
  — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
• He was never charged with extortion.
  — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• This is extortion, pure and simple.
  — Robin Abcarian, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
• His attorneys have framed the funds as a response to an extortion plot.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Cantwell is in prison for extortion and threat charges in an unrelated case.
  — Elle Reeve, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• The couple also faced cartel extortion and death threats along the way.
  — Philip Wang, Time, 27 Mar. 2026
• Ed Burke, who at the time was suspected of extortion.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
• The gang has been active with extortion attempts on its website.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2021
• That started a months-long extortion effort.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
• As a final step, the malware will create an extortion note for the victim.
  — PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
• This routine extortion, however, will turn out to be the least of their concerns.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
• Everyone in the area was fed up with the constant extortion, Koudize said.
  — Ruth MacLean, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• Loverde pleaded guilty to his role in the extortion scheme in January.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• He gets chased by cops, swindles the wrong ping-pong goobers and becomes embroiled in a canine extortion scheme.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
• But that figure is likely just a fraction of the digital extortion that went on that year.
  — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
• He was sentenced to 35 years in jail for extortion and child pornography.
  — Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• What’s the deal with Jay-Z’s extortion lawsuit against Buzbee?
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
• Once nude images have been traded, that’s when the extortion starts, Gallas said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024
• Park and Kim, Lee’s accusers, are being tried on extortion charges.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Refugees like him were also targeted by the police for extortion.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• Refugees like him were also targeted by the police for extortion.
  — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
• This is nothing more than censorship and extortion.
  — ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
• Maybe that line would feel less like extortion if the past four years of corporate profits weren’t the best in a century.
  — Kathryn Anne Edwards, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026