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• Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 90. From the entry vitiate
• For the right labyrinth, however, both vertical semicircular canals produce clockwise slow phases (ipsilateral eye intorts, contralateral eye extorts).2003, Thomas Brandt, Vertigo: Its Multisensory Syndromes, page 194. From the entry intort
• US experts believe the Iraqi intelligence service will set the plots in motion, then recruit or extort amateurs to do the dirty work.2003 February 4, Elaine Shannon [et al.], “At Home, the FBI Keeps Tabs on Iraqis”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dirty work
• Germany had made compensation for every contribution by a counter payment, although she could have extorted them by force as the due of the victor.1946, Department of State Bulletin - Volume 15, page 198. From the entry counter payment
• He would lend it to get rid of Podson: the price of three weeks' food money extorted from him by a footpad.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 71. From the entry footpad
• The bailiff or sub-bailiff that had or held the 'scotale' often began by stealing or extorting sheaves of corn from the men of the neighbourhood.1910, Year Books of Edward II, volume 5. From the entry scotale
• It started out as standard war-time propaganda and then the jooz grabbed it as a way to extort billions of $ from germany and other countries.2010 November 7, Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers, “Re: Radical Professor Denies the Holocaust”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet). From the entry holocash
• Sullenly, jocularly, resentfully, or derisively, names and addresses were extorted from the company, and each member given a jerk of the head to get out of this.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 160. From the entry sullenly
• These conditions are reversed after every hemicycle, i.e. the previously higher intorted eye is then lowered and extorted, and the previously lowered extorted eye becomes higher and intorted (Fig. 3.7).2011, Peter Urban, Louis R. Caplan, Brainstem Disorders, page 124. From the entry intort

Meaning of extort

1. verb To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
2. verb To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
3. verb To twist outwards.

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How do you use extort in a sentence?

Extort is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition.”

What is a short sentence with extort?

“to extort a promise”

What does extort mean?

Extort means to take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.