Sentence examples for been bribed from inspiring English sources
verb
To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
Safety inspectors have been bribed, he asserted.
Unless you've been bribed to do so already.
I feel absolutely certain that Turner is a scoundrel and [has] been bribed..
How can anyone prove how a judge would have ruled if he had not been bribed?" Id., at 307-308.
State investigators later determined that prison authorities and guards had been bribed to arrange the excursions.
He eventually left office in 1995 amid accusations he had been bribed by the Yakuza.
State investigators later determined that prison authorities and guards had been bribed.
I feel absolutely certain that Turner is a scoundrel and [has] been bribed...
The new administrator had been bribed into selling off the villagers' communal land, without consulting the village council.
He has said that witnesses have been bribed and that the case "will in the end amount to fraud".
She was reassured that the Indian customs officer had been bribed and it was going to be safe to leave.
