bribing

Example Sentences

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Next came Didius Julianus, a senatorial aristocrat who achieved the throne by bribing the guardsmen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The leader of one of South Korea's largest cult-like churches stood trial on Monday accused of bribing the country's former first lady with gifts including a designer handbag and a diamond necklace.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

Federal law prohibits threatening election officials or staff with violence, intimidating or bribing voters, buying or selling votes, impersonating voters, altering vote tallies, stuffing ballot boxes and marking ballots for voters without their input.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2024

A few years later, he caused the downfall of Tory politicians when he went public about bribing them to ask questions for him in parliament.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024

Some of them, those in a better economic position, attempted to win her heart by bribing her daughter.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende