- present tense form of extort (3rd person singular).
extorts
Example Sentences
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“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021
“Here you have someone trying to lawfully work and support their families, and then someone turns around and extorts them,” Erzen said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017
The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017
He believes this pressure to be friendly is caused by “unequal economic power that extorts emotional work.”
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2014
But when a Governor-General descends into the muck and filth of peculation and corruption, when he receives bribes and extorts money, he does acts that are imitable by everybody.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
