Example Sentences

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We couldn’t have blackmailed you if you hadn’t been hiding who you are, Miguel reminded him, which seemed petty given the circumstances.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2015

Bill could have blackmailed many a careless man of prominence, had he been so minded.

From Half a Rogue by MacGrath, Harold

But—although I would never have blackmailed her, I think,—she had been mainly in the right.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch