- 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
This means, for example, that a U.S. senator who extorts money is no more immune to being charged with this crime than an ordinary American.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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
“But they make sure that nobody robs, nobody extorts, nobody kidnaps. They don’t mess with the people here.”
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2015
It forces indolence into activity, and extorts from vice itself the deeds of generosity and virtue.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by William Wilberforce
