blackmail

Example Sentences

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This exemplary service failed to account for her disturbingly poor judgment, risking blackmail and conflict-of-interest allegations, since the Atlanta Police Department appears before her court; nor her lack of candor to the court.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

I read a description of the series that summed things up like this: A divorced mom gets caught up in a perilous web of blackmail, murder and youth soccer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

"Iran should not use this strait as a weapon to pressure or to blackmail the Gulf countries," Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told reporters in Doha on Tuesday.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

They claim that the laws are widely abused as a blackmail tool in divorces, enrich lawyers and let spouses who misbehave off the hook, treating them as passive objects with no agency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy