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• He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.From the entry view
• The police arrested the ringleaders of the smuggling operation.From the entry ringleader
• People who smuggle artifacts, blood diamonds and ivory trinkets on the black market are unforgivable in my mind.From the entry unforgivable
• It'll be in the hidden compartment of my bag when I go through the line, so don't worry, I'll be able to smuggle it past.From the entry smuggle past
• Tim is told off for trying to smuggle Dad a 'snorker' (sausage) from the catering trolley.2022, Emily Bevan, The Diary of Losing Dad, page 15. From the entry snorker
• One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made.1978, Australian Government Publication Service, Parliamentary Papers, page 32. From the entry backloading
• In other instances, rent seeking takes other forms, such as bribery, corruption, smuggling, and black markets.1974 June, Anne O[sborn] Krueger, “The Political Economy of the Rent-seeking Society”, in The American Economic Review, volume 64, page…. From the entry rent-seeking
• They either starve, take up smuggling or invade the citronella circuit in a beat-up revival.1951, LIFE, volume 30, number 26, page 94. From the entry citronella circuit
• Harry said, "It's too bad, but of course we couldn't attempt to smuggle him.1949, Upton Sinclair, O Shepherd, Speak! Part I, reprinted, published 2001, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry make one's bed and lie in it
• It would have to be smuggled back to Josie’s bloomer drawer.1946, Margot Bennett, Away Went the Little Fish, Garden City, N.Y.: The Crime Club, published 1947, page 211. From the entry bloomer
• Austria is a prime destination for smuggled people heading for the heart of the EU via Hungary from the Balkans.2023 May 23, Lisa O'Carroll, “Austria tightens border controls as Hungary frees convicted people smugglers”, in The Guardian. From the entry stepped-up
• Joseph Midnight brought them in his port from Townsville, smuggled them in, not that anyone was there to stop him.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 53. From the entry port
• I know that on Friends, Jennifer Aniston is often, in the words of one of my guy friends, “smuggling raisins.”2005, Ayana Byrd, Akiba Solomon, Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts, →ISBN. From the entry smuggling raisins
• Smuggling raisins in that wet T-shirt — okay, sue me!1998, M. C. Bolin, Armageddon, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry smuggling raisins
• He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga, and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 217. From the entry dagga
• The secretary proposed raising the money to purchase smuggled items from Shanghai and re-sell them for a profit.1982 March 28, “Smuggling becomes serious”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 12, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry Changlo
• In all smuggling places ghost stories abound.1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379. From the entry law-abiding
• His own granny used to smuggle out rabbit meat, tied to her body, and bring back such coveted Italian goods as chocolate, coffee and brooms.2026 June 24, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life on the borderline”, in RAIL, number 1064, page 68. From the entry broom
• It turns out that Susan has the dirts with Karl because on their way back from Thailand, Karl smuggled a durian fruit home with them.2017 August 11, Alex McCarthy, “Neighbours recap: Elly was caught in the buff!”, in TV Week. From the entry have the dirts with
• A girl who thinks nothing of smuggling a coatful of drugs across two national borders whilst escaping a murder scene with the prime suspect.2017, Adam Croft, Only the Truth. From the entry coatful
• After all, if he hadn't smuggled those beers into my '80s movie-palooza, I'd be clutching a barf bag on a trans-Atlantic flight as we speak.2014, Maggie Bloom, Any Red-Blooded Girl. From the entry -palooza
• Mr Grave proceeded to give a stern warning to those “errant pupils” who, against the rules, had been smuggling their mobile phones into school.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry skint
• Three to seven for narcotics smuggling.2011 winter, Anthony Marra, “Palace of the People”, in The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories, London; New York, N.Y.: Hogarth, published…. From the entry Yandex
• He was killing me with the jokes and he was killing everybody with his smuggled corned beef samages that stanked up the joint.2010, Brooke, Detroit, Lenacrave and Cleveland, page 295. From the entry stank
• For the second time in four months, prison guards foiled an attempt to smuggle a cellphone into a prison by carrier pigeon.2009 July 3, “Brazil: A Cellphone Carrier Is Thwarted”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Dec 2011. From the entry carrier pigeon
• In a small store in Tingjiang, across the Min River in Lianjiang County, questions about smuggling people into America prompted a lively discussion.2003 September 7, David W. Chen, “For Many Chinese, America's Allure Is Fading”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry min
• A system marking fuel with a chemical (bio-coding) has been put in place as a way of reducing fuel smuggling into the country.2000, Uganda Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). From the entry bio-code
• A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription.1992, Gerald Martin Bordman, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, page 256256. From the entry misfill
• Many of these appeals appeared in Ukrains’kyi visnyk, a samvydav Ukrainian publication, and a surprising amount eventually were smuggled out of Ukraine to the West.1978, Stephan M. Horak, Russia, the USSR, and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1964-1974…. From the entry samvydav
• Getting dressed up with your friends, preing way too hard, and finally Ubering to the AO Arena where the hip flask you smuggled in definitely comes in handy.2022 November 10, Myfanwy Fleming-Jones, “Manchester Student Fight Night – All you need to know!”, in The Mancunion, archived from the…. From the entry pre
• Since trade at Kiakhta is now suspended, the Mohammedans of Andijan might attempt to make a big profit by smuggling Russian commodities into China for sale.1966, Lo-shu Fu, A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644–1820), University of Arizona Press, page 307. From the entry Sinkiang
• In recent years, the sophistication of the antiweed forces both within Mexico and along the border has necessitated a specialization on the part of those involved in smuggling and dealing.1974, Jerry Kamstra, Weed, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry antiweed

Meaning of smuggle

1. verb To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties.
2. verb To bring in surreptitiously.
3. verb To fondle or cuddle.

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Questions about smuggle in a sentence

How do you use smuggle in a sentence?

Smuggle is used as a verb. For example: “He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.”

What is a short sentence with smuggle?

“Three to seven for narcotics smuggling.”

What does smuggle mean?

Smuggle means to import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties.