Sentence examples for was bilked from inspiring English sources
verb
To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
If the money to do that was bilked from foreigners, all the better.
Her father, a railroad worker, was killed in an accident, and the hapless family was bilked of any fair compensation.
That is, the average Californian was bilked of more than $250, but the state will receive compensation of about 3 cents.
Sickles was bilked out of much of his money by a portrait-painting princess with the unlikely name of Lenott Parlaghy.
Ms. Warren — a bankruptcy expert at Harvard Law School, an Oklahoma native whose father was bilked of his savings by a business partner — developed the idea for the bureau in a 2007 article.
In the service of his father, who was bilked by a former business manager, John Henry has become involved in lawsuits and an F.B.I. sting and has owned several companies that have gone bankrupt or have folded.
She explained that her target was a guy who was bilking her for money and had information that could cause her to lose her ability to practice.
Florida's Gov. Rick Scott also says he won't expand Medicaid, which is painfully ironic since he didn't mind government-funded health care when his company was bilking the Medicare program to line his own pockets.
UNCLE SAM is being bilked, big-time.
Charitable organizations are bilked by greedy maniacs.
IT IS not certain if or to what extent investors have been bilked, or who has done the bilking.
