How to Use extradite in a Sentence

extradite

verb
  • The prisoner was extradited across state lines.
  • He will be extradited from the U.S. to Canada to face criminal charges there.
  • Mark Sokolovsky, 26, is in custody in the Netherlands as the U.S. tries to extradite him.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • He was extradited back to the U.S. in May to face the pending charges.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But by the time he and two of his lieutenants were extradited, the case was over.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 19 July 2024
  • He was extradited from France to the United States in 2022.
    — Jennifer Hansler, Anna Chernova and Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
  • He was extradited to the United States in 2024 and was then held in U.S. prisons.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The pair were extradited back to Missouri and held on a $1 million bond.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Arango was extradited to the United States in May 2023.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But Germany’s supreme leader had fled to the Netherlands and the Dutch refused to extradite him.
    — Benjamin Nathans, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
  • France, Switzerland and Poland have rejected bids to extradite him to the U.S.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 14 July 2022
  • Libya refused to extradite the men to the U.S. but ultimately agreed to a deal to put them on trial in the Netherlands.
    — Eric Tucker, ajc, 16 Dec. 2020
  • El Chapo has since been extradited to the U.S., sentenced to life in prison, and ordered to pay $12.6 billion.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Ng has been extradited from Malaysia to the U.S. to face similar charges.
    — Shamim Adam, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Villegas was in the process of being extradited from New York to Ocean County to face the charges.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • He was extradited to Ohio a month later and has been held at the Butler County Jail since that time.
    — Sonia Chopra, Cincinnati.com, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Arrested once again by the Garda, he was freed once again by the Irish state, which refused to extradite him.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Police were not able to confirm if the pair had been extradited to New York as of Friday.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Ma Seok-do who heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The process to extradite him to Alaska is likely to take weeks or months, officials said.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The Venice court of appeals will now have to rule on Guevara’s case before he can be extradited.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
  • France does not extradite its citizens to the United States per French law.
    — Fox News, 14 July 2020
  • Right before he was extradited to the U.S. for arraignment, Cazes was found dead in his jail cell.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • Jones searched the internet for countries that don't extradite suspects back to the U.S. and took his passport.
    — Jeffrey Collins, Fox News, 5 June 2019
  • He was extradited back to Hartford five months later and placed in prison.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 24 July 2019
  • Troopers say he was extradited to the U.S. in August and is expected to face the charges in Alaska state courts.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The protests were sparked by a law that would extradite Hong Kongers accused of a crime to mainland China (a law since suspended).
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • The attorney also said that his client is prepared to fight any effort to extradite him to the United States.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • He was extradited and booked into the Travis County Jail about a month later, jail records show.
    — Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Dec. 2024
  • He is being extradited back to Flagler County, which could take up to six months, according to deputies.
    — Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025

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