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

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 Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

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 Gillmore, Inez Haynes