How to Use bilk in a Sentence

bilk

verb
  • We the people will get bilked (again) and left (again) without health care.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
  • Others warned that rings of scammers were bilking the system.
    — John Fund, National Review, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The victim told police that he was bilked out of more than $3,000.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 30 Sep. 2019
  • He'd been dogged by lawsuits and liens for bilking tens of thousands of dollars from investors.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
  • The real gift is to consumers who have been bilked again and again by big banks and predatory payday lenders.
    — WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Thousands of investors were bilked of more than $450 million.
    — Heather Timmons, Quartz, 9 July 2019
  • Hale last year was first accused of bilking a 79-year-old out of tens of thousands of dollars.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • That last name was the killer’s true one; the others the aliases of the bigamist who went from bilking paramours and brides to murdering them.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The money was found bilked from the government’s coffers and mismanaged.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Duke had pleaded guilty to bilking his supporters and cheating on his income taxes.
    — NOLA.com, 28 May 2017
  • Systems such as these are intentionally put in place to bilk the families.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Take Bernie Madoff, the financier whose Ponzi scheme bilked billions out of investors.
    — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2017
  • He was freed from the misery of that boarding school only when Sarah, having been bilked by a fortune hunter, went broke and had to withdraw him.
    — Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • In total, prosecutors say the fraud scheme bilked the program out of more than $250 million.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Tens of millions of people are ensnared in these pyramid schemes that use cult-like techniques to brainwash their targets and bilk them out of their money.
    — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Not so much the political stuff, but sort of just the hacky supplements and trying to bilk your grandparents out of their life savings kind of style.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 28 Apr. 2026
  • But one of his former victims worried that Erickson would continue to bilk people out of money.
    — Stephen Groves, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Trump is casting the world as having collectively -- and purposely -- bilked the US for decades.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 June 2018
  • Yassin and Stevens are the first drivers to face any criminal repercussions for allegedly bilking the program.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In all, state prosecutors allege, Murdaugh bilked his law firm, clients and the government out of more than $9 million.
    — Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 24 May 2023
  • And whatever gets spent on the team will almost certainly be repaid by a fan base eager to care after years of watching Loria pinch pennies and bilk the city.
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • But Gervais, sentenced to six years and three months in prison Tuesday, bilked the woman of thousands of dollars and delayed a surgery the woman had planned, court records show.
    — Ben Brasch, ajc, 17 May 2018
  • David Bloom has been charged with grand theft in Los Angeles, accused of bilking several people out of tens of thousands of dollars.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The government, under the inattentive care of Democrats, may have been bilked for ages by a man the FBI has alleged to be a fraudster.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The President has complained that Canada's trade policies have bilked US farmers and dairymen.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 13 June 2018
  • That's primarily a reference to online scams perpetrated by organized crime that have bilked victims around the world of billions of dollars each year.
    — CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
  • How did an international scheme based in London to bilk old people out of cash through booze get brought down because of someone in Highland Heights?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • The scam earned mastermind David Hernandez a 17-year-sentence for bilking investors out of millions of dollars.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • In all, prosecutors said in a release that McFarland bilked over 80 investors of more than $26 million.
    — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Murdaugh, 57, will remain in prison, however, after being sentenced on dozens of state and federal charges for bilking millions from his former law firm and clients for more than a decade.
    — Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 14 May 2026

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