EMBEZZLEMENT in a Sentence

Learn EMBEZZLEMENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

11 example sentences for EMBEZZLEMENT, such as:

1. The agent's son embezzled the funds and ran off with them.
2. It was later found guilty on a charge of embezzlement from the Pentagon.
3. The story of her embezzlement of the funds created a furor on the Stock Exchange.
4. Unwilling to disgorge the cash he had stolen from the pension fund, the embezzler tried to run away.
5. She is accused of attempting to embezzle $405 million from the state while heading a gas company in the 1990s

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 Meanings and Examples of EMBEZZLEMENT
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embezzlement
 n.  stealing; fraudulent appropriation of property
Classic Sentence:
1  The agent's son embezzled the funds and ran off with them.
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1  Supporters waited outside Meshchansky Courthouse in Moscow, where Russia's richest man has been accused of fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion.
2  When she heard that her rival had just been jailed for embezzlement, we saw her chortle with joy. She was not a nice lady.
3  It was later found guilty on a charge of embezzlement from the Pentagon.
4  In order to countervail the financial loss the school suffered after the embezzlement, the treasurer raised the price of room and board.
5  The story of her embezzlement of the funds created a furor on the Stock Exchange.
6  The authorities did not discover the campaign manager's malfeasance until after he had spent most of the money he had embezzled.
7  She is accused of attempting to embezzle $405 million from the state while heading a gas company in the 1990s
8  When the bank examiners arrived to hold their annual audit, they discovered the embezzlements of the chief cashier.
9  Unwilling to disgorge the cash he had stolen from the pension fund, the embezzler tried to run away.
10  Unions and Democrats are routinely found, again and again, to be embezzling massive amounts of money, with barely a whisper from the media.