bribe
noun
money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete, public official, etc..
was bribing
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past progressiveof bribe.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By high school, Nanci was bribing Eric to get out of bed with the promise of being able to watch “SportsCenter” during breakfast.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
“I was bribing the security guard to let me into the parking lot with a breakfast taco, and then I had to bribe her,” recalls Jaramillo, a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a full-time doctoral student.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2020
No one was bribing coaches or hiring consultants on my behalf.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2019
Prosecutors say the mechanism for those favors, which Singer called a “side door,” was bribing athletic coaches to designate unqualified applicants as their recruits at Stanford, Yale, Georgetown and other big-name universities.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2019
All the news cameras cared about was bribing students to talk about Jeremy.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
