How to Use "extortionate" with Example Sentences

1. Extortionate call charges put customers off .

2. The price exacted by the hijackers for redeeming the hostages was extortionate .

3. Those are extortionate interest rates to be charging .

4. Scholars were charged extortionate permissions fees , and often bluntly refused the right to quote from his grandfather 's work at all .

5. The trigger was the us " subprime " mortgage crisis where lenders targeted poor people with loans at extortionate rates of .