Extort in a sentence as a verb

The goal of the scam isn't extort $500k.

So after the "child extort" agency did this 3 times, I shut down the account.

We know this IPR will cost us more than the $75,000 that Rotatable wanted to extort from us.

It is naked extortion covered by a thin veneer of lawyering.

Dash-cams won’t protect you from being \n extorted for cash, because your *** shouldn’t have been speeding.

These are normally sent out in bulk by patent trolls to any and all people they think they can extort money from.

In this scenario, the extortionist and the drug dealer are the same party.

Nokia was able to successfully extort money from Apple.

They're just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea to see if they can extort some money out of them.

But after I lost my job, even though I'm a fulltime single father, the "child extort" kidnappers levied my checking account several times.

In patent cases, the opposite is true; patents are the tools of trolls and big companies to extort and destroy innovative small businesses.

"but let's be clear: these "review" sites are shady operations that extort retailers by aggregating negative reviews and charging to hide them.

Perhaps their endgame is to use a vast collection of compromising images collected under the pretence of privacy to extort protection fees from their users.

One common characteristic of extortion is the use of threats, that is, an express intention to inflict injury, loss, or some other bad consequence on another person.

I helped several people avoid deportation, including one cell-mate who had a hit contract out on him in Jamaica because he defended his business when yardies tried to extort him.

"> "In the United States, extortion may also be committed as a federal crime across a computer system, phone, by mail or in using any instrument of interstate commerce.

Extort definitions

verb

obtain through intimidation

verb

obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

See also: squeeze rack gouge wring

verb

get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner