How To Use Bilk In A Sentence
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Your billfold will be bilked to subsidize the insurers.
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Police have released CCTV images of the man who is suspected of a string of fuel thefts - known as 'bilking' - across Greater Manchester.
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Hang!" simultaneously shouted the two hackney-drivers, who seemed as bitter against the disgraced duellist as if he had "bilked" them of a fare.
The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley
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The offences mentioned (generally known as "bilking") may be punished by imprisonment without the option of a fine, and the whole or any part of the fine imposed may be applied in compensation to the driver.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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You didn't tell us he had a bump for bilking!" jeers a fiend -- "bilking," I believe, is 'Arryan for going away without paying.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887
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Although search engine to change without the bilk that discovers you, your competitor may inform against you.
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Feel free to search for his infamous "bilk" comment back when Dragon Arse came out to see the reactions the last time he said this.
Eurogamer
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That being said, it almost makes sense that they would vilify the very people who they bilked, conned, and stole from, now that the jig is up.
Richard Zombeck: Bankers New Tactic: Blame the Victim
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On his journey, Tom is being hosted by members of various hunts, who are also providing stabling for Bilko.
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The counselor bilked his clients out of$2 million.
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Shaking his head, Deuce ushered the boy and the woman into the closest inn he could find and trust-one he'd stayed in before and knew wouldn't bilk him of his money or send stable boys in the middle of the night to rifle through his purse.
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Until the 20th century, someone who bilked the consumer without using force was rarely prosecuted.
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With American education falling into decay, and each generation leaving school more hopeless than the last, it's good to know New York State isn't bilking its teachers.
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He bilked his creditors
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His father, Robert Todino Sr., worries that malicious users have preyed on Robby's ‘psychological problems’ and bilked him out of money.
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The Frydmans, who had formed a venture with L'Oreal in 1988, contend that L'Oreal forced them out a year later to meet Arab demands; Pope, the L'Oreal lawyer, responds that they "bilked" L'Oreal for millions of dollars.
Bracing For A Black Eye
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There seem to be those that aren't really cut out for the demands of the 9 to 5 workday, and Vincent's one of those people, to be sure, but one must question if that alone justifies him bilking his father and friends out of money.
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How many billions of dollars does this man’s former companies have to bilk out of our country in overinflated prices before it offends you?
Think Progress » Senators Demand Dobson & Rove Reveal Details Of “Confidential” Miers Conversation
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Then there is that rib-tickling American double act at Liverpool, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, whose financial acumen appears to be akin to that of Sgt Ernie Bilko, the leading character in a long-running TV show which bore the tagline "You'll never get rich".
Liverpool's rib-tickling duo have left Roy Hodgson's side sore
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Former Johnson County, Kan., prosecutor Larry McClain still remembers the March 1977 morning Farmer was to stand trial on charges that he bilked a 57-year-old widow named Emma out of her life's savings.
Heroes or Villains?
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They accuse me of actually having a home while bilking good people of their hard earned cash.
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It would be easy to overplay this role… to burlesque it in the direction of Sergeant Bilko.
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They are bilking fans out of millions of dollars by releasing the theatrical versions of the films several months in advance of the amazing extended editions.
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These men could be on the street right now, bilking old ladies out of their money.
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It's just one deceitful Wasp after another, cuckolding their best friends as they bilk them of their inherited wealth.
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bilked" consumers with references to celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Rachel Ray.
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Obama seems to take that posture when he says companies who don't "bilk" people don't have to fear his reforms.
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader
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November 29th, 2009 6: 40 pm ET just another far left loon trying to bilk more money out of the american public for their ill-gotten social programs. lets vote this idiot out of office and into the unemployment line!!
Obey questions Afghan war, explains his war tax proposal
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Investment banks established known super risky credit instruments built to "bilk" both domestic and foreign investors and bond traders of their equity.
Another Nightmare in the likes of Iraq and Katrina - Greed '08
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The word gaming puts ‘foo-foo dust,’ as we used to say in the Army, on a business that bilks the poor and traps the unwary with ‘something for nothing.’
No Uncertain Terms
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One former customer service representative stated in 1999 that the company was ‘just bilking customers out of their money.’
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Archie's convinced the body shop is going to bilk him.
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Mrs. Margaret O'Rourke, with the baddish cat following closely at her heels, entered the Bilkins mansion, reached her chamber in the attic without being intercepted, and there laid aside her finery.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
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The investment counselor bilked his clients of $ 1.5 million.
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I thought they were putting extra charges on the bill to bilk people who weren't paying attention - I expected them to be very accommodating about correcting the bill if I made an issue out of it.
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Ron L. Hubbard was nothing more than a con man and a scam artist as well as a second rate sci-fi writer, who managed to cash in on a viable scam to bilk honest hard working people out of their money.
Scientologists, WWII Star of David spoof
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Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N. D., used harsher language, saying the government "bilked" many trust account holders.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: GOP bilked Indians for tons of money
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Years ago there was a young Bilkins, one Pendexter Bilkins -- a sad losel, we fear -- who ran away to try his fortunes before the mast, and fell overboard in a gale off Hatteras.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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Two years later, Max Black (1956) presented an argument against backward causation, which became known as the bilking argument, and later attempts to meet the argument seemed to generate all kinds of paradoxes.
Backward Causation
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Eagerly searching for work, Charlie unfortunately becomes the victim of a scam; he's bilked out of all his money, and his jobless situation has not changed.
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Hamilton was a greedy banker wall street crook that bilked the country out of great sums of money in war bonds.
Think Progress » Wall Street Bankers And Investors Fund New Media Platform For Gov. Bob McDonnell’s SOTU Response
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German tax authorities are now investigating almost 40 companies that traded certificates for allegedly taking advantage of loopholes in sales tax laws to bilk the taxman out of hundreds of millions of euros.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 8, 2009
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The stain, and that a teastain (the overcautelousness of the masterbilker here, as usual, signing the page away), marked it off on the spout of the moment as a genuine relique of ancient
Finnegans Wake
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The four of them turn the tables on Eddington and end up bilking him out of millions.
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If I were younger though, I'd do like many of the younger teachers here in Vegas do and moonlight in the casinos where you get paid more to bilk the adults of today than educate the leaders of tomorrow.
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As Bilko, Silvers was never less than sensational, delivering his lines with speed and guile and marvellously ad-libbing when the situation required it.
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Who builds the offices in which lawyers can bilk their clients?
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Or maybe he should have withdrawn from cheney's energy commission talks where they set up the scan to bilk this country out of high high high gasoline prices.
Hatch shuts door on bipartisan health care talks
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The woman, with the baddish cat following closely at her heels, entered the Bilkins mansion, reached her chamber in the attic without being intercepted, and there laid aside her finery.
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Some fake old woman was trying to bilk his innocent friend out of some money.
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When asked yesterday by Tim Russert about this e-mail, Cornyn accused Reed -- who, in addition to being a top Bush campaign official also happens to be seeking the GOP nomination as Lt. Governor of Georgia -- of lying and "bilking" his clients:
Using Christian conservatives for fun and profit
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Not only had Chase bilked him out of millions of dollars, but to add insult to injury he was now demanding $1 million dollars for the safe return of his daughter.
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In Colorado alone, Iannone is believed to have bilked investors ... out of nearly $200,000.
Pittsburgh Tribune - John Iannone Sentenced!
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A Nigerian scammer is accused of posing as the central bank of Ethiopia and bilking Citibank out of $27,000,000:
Boing Boing
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She looks young, back before she found Jesus and troopered around with Brother Billy "Bilk 'em on Down" Graham before "Gawd" took her off to that sweet little cabin in the Big Sky.
S.O.S.
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As Bilko, Silvers was never less than sensational, delivering his lines with speed and guile and marvellously ad-libbing when the situation required it.
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The electricity sector cannot be efficient when it breaks down catastrophically and bilks its own customers.
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Kansas City widow quickly dropped the criminal charge against Farmer, opting instead to file a civil lawsuit against him in which she sought to recoup about $70,000 she says he bilked from her.
Heroes or Villains?
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I also remembered that summer he bilked me out of fifty cents with the assurance that he had developed invisible arm bands that would shoot out steely webs just like Spiderman.
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_ "Then this is a clear case of 'bilk' on his part.
On the Heels of De Wet
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Once there fraudsters attempt to bilk their victim for yet more cash.