How to Use contraband in a Sentence

contraband

noun

• The border police searched the car for drugs and other contraband.
• Police seized the contraband and sent the man, 22, of Erie, Pa., on his way.
  — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
• He was sentenced to 15 years with three years to serve in the contraband case.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2020
• The contraband are all over the United States, the agency said.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2021
• The contraband was not in plain sight and the officer asked if the nursing staff could search the patient.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• She was found to be in possession of a contraband cell phone.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2023
• The clear designs are meant to prevent the tablets from being used to store contraband or weapons.
  — Gabrielle Caplan, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• The detainee then took the contraband on a bus back to Rikers Island.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
• However, a search of the Dodge didn’t yield any contraband.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 5 May 2021
• Officials say the drones have been used to drop contraband.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• Cheaters have been caught sneaking off to the bathroom to check moves on contraband smartphones.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• Better like fights and, and suicides and contraband use.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 July 2022
• All contraband that customs agents are trained to catch.
  — Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
• The contraband, bought in Libya, could be sold in Italy for a large markup by skirting high import duties.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• She was imaged by X-ray; the images showed no contraband.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• The trooper found two traps used to conceal contraband in the floorboard, the affidavit says.
  — Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
• And police could no longer use the odor of cannabis as a reason for searching someone’s car for contraband.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2021
• And police could no longer use the odor of cannabis as a reason for searching someone's car for contraband.
  — Marina Villeneuve and Jennifer Peltz, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• During the long, long months when Russian forces were in charge, the national flag was contraband.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022
• The state’s policy for 50 years was to open legal mail in the presence of the inmate to inspect it for contraband, the lawsuit said.
  — Dylan Lovan, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2021
• But the teen's lawyer argued that no evidence of contraband was found.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 17 July 2024
• One of those inmates took notes, and recorded Garcia Luna with a contraband cell phone, the judge wrote.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024
• Hamm said most of the contraband is thrown over the perimeter fences and the ADOC does not have the personnel to adequately prevent that.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 22 Feb. 2023
• Macauley, 41, enlisted a group of friends who were local drug dealers to sell the contraband.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
• The charging documents state inmates have received the contraband on post cards and papers mailed to them in the past.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2020
• All of the drugs were turned over to the Border Patrol, which said in a statement on Twitter that the total street value of the contraband was about $2 million.
  — David Goodhue Miami Herald (tns), al, 1 Aug. 2022
• There was no odor of contraband, but the scent of Opening-Day optimism was potent.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2021
• Officials fight the flow of contraband through the arrest of smugglers and mass searches.
  — Jeff Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• Her first infraction occurred in 1997 when she was caught with contraband, a razor.
  — Juliette Arcodia, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2024
• The jail said the raid was enacted to confiscate contraband, including drugs, guns and cellphones, but Combs' defense claims he was targeted in the search and that investigators turned over his notes to the government.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024