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Six example sentences with extortion, each labelled with its topic.
Forty euros for a ten-minute taxi ride from the terminal felt like plain extortion to the exhausted family.
Travel
Fans called the resale price extortion when a thirty-pound ticket appeared online at four hundred within a minute.
Music
The committee described the fund's exit fee as extortion, since leaving early cost savers a fifth of their balance.
Finance
Nine dollars for a bottle of water at the arena is extortion, and fans grumble about it every home game.
Basketball
Players called the price of the new skin pack extortion, since it cost more than the entire game had.
Gaming
Charging twelve dollars for a plain slice of toast struck the food critic as extortion dressed up as brunch.
Cooking
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