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How to use baksheesh in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word baksheesh? Here are some examples.

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Elders make an income by taxi driving and baksheesh from tomb guardianship.
Since the average baksheesh for foreigners is between 10 and 20 leva, I am well ahead of the game.
In the old days the uncertainty provided a lucrative source of supplemental income for town-hall bureaucrats who would tip you the wink for a little discreet baksheesh.
In Lebanon there is no driving school but baksheesh offices instead.
No baksheesh, then you can hold the buck and sheesh, man, it is your problem.
As one might expect in a Middle East culture of baksheesh, an unknown quantity was pocketed by Iraqi politicians.
We were sponsored by Typhoo so we'd got boxes and boxes of teabags which we used as baksheesh to ease our way through borders and customs.
Sometimes they would stop and ask for baksheesh and we would give them small sums of money, sweets and fruit.
But his barber insisted on collecting Dh5 extra as baksheesh.
Baksheesh is often the accepted manner of doing business in the Middle and Far East. However, one must be careful not to confuse ethics with the law.
Talking to media, Baksheesh denied any connection with Pradeep Singh.
Examples from Classical Literature
Donkey-boys and arabeah-men aren't easily seduced when there's a question of baksheesh.
Those incapables had no doubt been after David for baksheesh, and he felt just that way.
The first word these loons pronounce after coming into the world must be baksheesh.
The next best thing to do is to forget the wish, pay two-pence in baksheesh and ride away to get the most of a glorious view.
For the first two years of war he kept out of the army by means of baksheesh.
In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.
What was more, he and his firm were never troubled any more with inexorable demands for baksheesh.
Still, I am sorry now I didn't contribute the baksheesh he expected.
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