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..
were 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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An observer camouflaged as another patient discovered that all the diarrhetics were bribing a night orderly to steal purgatives for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
It brought out millions of sparkles in the white sand; and there seemed something calculating about that—as though she were bribing them with jewels to forget.
From Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore
He was in the Poplar Tree!—However in the world did you put him there?—Was that what you were bribing the Butcher's Boy about this morning?
From Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
