Bribe
"Bribe" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Mr Koop would be the last person to take a bribe.
The mayor denied having taken a bribe.
It was very sensible of him to reject the bribe.
The merchant sent the politician a bribe.
Everybody suspected him of taking a bribe.
He offered a big bribe to the politician.
He isn't a man to take a bribe.
He is the last man to take a bribe.
He refused to take the bribe.
He denied that he had accepted the bribe.
c. 1613-1625, Henry Hobart, Yardly v. Ellill Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe.
The bribes I took did not influence me to become evil. I was evil from the beginning and the bribes were merely a bonus
Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.
Remy, this was a bribe! Our whole marriage has been nothing but a series of bribes!
She was accused of trying to bribe the jury into making false statements.
October 23, 1848, Frederick William Robertson, an address delivered at the Opening of The Working Men's Institute Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
to bribe somebody's compliance
More for "bribe"
Next best steps
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.