extort

Kellner was also charged with attempting to extort the Lebovits family.

Or a stranger willing to let you use their cellphone to call your family might save their number and use it to extort them later.

What Republicans will attempt to extort from the White House will be decided at their retreat in January.

They say he tried to extort more money from them on the way out of Syria, but Mousa engaged him angrily in Arabic.

Instead, it would rather sabotage the game and try to extort its way to a victory.

One day some commissioners called at her cell, hoping to extort from her the secret of her husband's retreat.

In reality, Alleyn wanted to extort a larger rental than £14 for the property, which had greatly increased in value.

His prisoners were tied up and beaten with naked cutlasses in order to extort information about their concealed hoards.

But as it was, the lady had sufficient power to extort a promise that I would devote myself to the work.

Besides, how could he be sure that Billy would not play upon his fears to extort further sums?