How to Use hush money in a Sentence

hush money

noun
  • In the end, the case isn’t about the tawdry details of the hush money payments.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Look, this case, this hush money case, was the case that everybody said was the crappy case of the four.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Jan. 2025
  • That was a reference to the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Trump has denied any wrongdoing in the hush money and documents matters and vowed to fight both sets of charges.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Trump was convicted in his New York hush money case but is unlikely to face jail time.
    — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Trump appealed his New York hush money conviction with a new roster of lawyers.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The comically squalid hush money case is probably the least of his troubles.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The jury’s verdict in the hush money case was the first time that a former president has been convicted of a crime.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Trump has also appealed his conviction in the hush money case, seeking to erase his criminal record.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Trump also still faces sentencing for his conviction in the New York hush money case.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Bragg will have to prove that the hush money provided to Daniels to cover up their affair amounts to felonious election fraud.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • He was found guilty on all charges in his New York hush money case in May and the two other cases remain on ice.
    — Jacob Knutson, Axios, 15 July 2024
  • Read Next National Should Trump take the stand in his ‘hush money’ trial?
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
  • But the system has actually worked quite well in the sense of the trial on the hush money case and in the Hunter Biden case.
    — Tyler Bartlam, NPR, 17 June 2024
  • Trump himself was convicted in a New York court last year in a case involving hush money payments.
    — Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Trump was found guilty in New York in a case involving hush money payments to an adult film access to conceal an affair.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Trump has already been convicted in the New York hush money case, and is awaiting sentencing.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
  • Alvin Bragg indicted him on charges of fraud related to the payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In one involving hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, the judge announced an April 15 trial date.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a separate New York hush money case.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Trump lashed out at Boasberg once again Monday, comparing him to the New York judge who handled his hush money case.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records in a New York hush money case.
    — Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Trump cannot pardon himself in the hush money case because presidential clemency power only applies to federal cases.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Trump is already scheduled to go to trial in March in a case in New York stemming from hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The hush money criminal case was one of several legal battles Trump fought in the years between his two terms, and the consequences of those cases have been largely washed away upon his reelection.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 30 May 2026
  • Again the day after a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to a hush money payment before the 2016 presidential election.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to the hush money matter, Blanche represented Trump in the two cases brought by the special counsel, his 2020 election interference case in Washington and the Florida case accusing the former president of hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
    — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • On an especially cold February day earlier this year on the 23rd floor of Manhattan's Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, Judge Alvin Hellerstein was hearing arguments to (again) decide whether the president could nix his hush money payment conviction.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026

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