shake down
Example Sentences
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The precedent also encourages plaintiff attorneys to shake down companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
So how will the "usual suspects", the "softies", the "newbies" and the "toadies" shake down?
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s attorney is accusing NFL veteran Michael Oher, whose story inspired ‘The Blind Side,’ of trying to shake down the couple.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
We read what Selin reads — Pushkin, Babel, Freud, Chekhov and, less happily for her, Martin Amis — and watch her ruthlessly shake down her life, comparing it to the lives she encounters in fiction.
From New York Times • May 9, 2022
My hands shake down to my fingertips, but I tap the screen and put the phone to my ear.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
