graft

Example Sentences

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Dati -- soon to go on trial for graft charges she denies -- has vowed to make the city cleaner and safer, pledging to improve rubbish collection, give weapons to municipal police officers and increase video surveillance.

From Barron's

Hutchcroft, 66, took over the business in the late 1980s and grafted to make it a success.

From BBC

And he never stopped, partly because graft is hard to root out from the system.

From BBC

Just before bed, though, I was online again and I saw that there were long times between when burned people did the treatments — to see how well the skin grafts “took.”

From Literature

Mayor of Turkey's largest and richest city until his arrest, Imamoglu is facing allegations ranging from graft to embezzlement and espionage, alongside 407 other defendants, in an indictment that runs nearly 4,000 pages.

From Barron's