How to Use narco in a Sentence

narco

noun

• Then the Opium Wars were fought to preserve the right to have narco sales, leading to the conquest of Hong Kong.
  — Abhishyant Kidangoor/ Hong Kong, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
• Leave the narco-trafficking routes alone and no harm would come their way.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• But in recent years, officials have noticed that some of the women in the narco world now control the money.
  — Malcolm Beith, Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2017
• Viral footage showed soldiers and narcos chatting amiably in the streets.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2019
• The handles give a glimpse into the niche industry: The.killa, narco, elchapo66, knee_capper, leadslinger.
  — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• With the proliferation of drugs has come a new narco culture.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Along with drug crimes, Maduro is charged with narco-terrorism and corruption.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 26 Mar. 2020
• But still, the end of a blatant narco-dictatorship means that, for the first time in 12 years, Hondurans can breathe a little bit easier.
  — Jared Olson, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2021
• Should the profits of the drug trade flow to murderers and narco-terrorists, or to the coffers of state and federal governments?
  — WSJ, 20 June 2018
• The trial was peppered with glimpses of such narco-extravagances as a private zoo with a lion, a hippo, white tigers and more.
  — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Since setting up shop, the gang has effectively turned Bolivia into a narco-state on steroids.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2017
• The problem has gotten so bad that in 2016, Colorado began partnering with the Mexican Consulate to bust the narcos.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2018
• That’s laughable given Russia’s closeness with narco-states such as Venezuela.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 22 July 2018
• But law enforcement agents still need to keep hacking at the tentacles of cartel finances that stretch through the United States, where the blood wealth of narcos could be right before your eyes.
  — Ioan Grillo, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Santrich was indicted by a grand jury in Southern District of New York on a narco-trafficking charge.
  — Taylor Barnes and Susannah Cullinane, CNN, 10 Apr. 2018
• Martell has chronicled narco-culture for years, beginning with the violence that has racked her native city of Juarez for decades.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• The three must overcome the armies of little monsters, narco-traffickers who themselves are stuck in the village, and several locals.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021
• Daily life in a narco-state forces Father Tim and Lisette into a series of choices that challenge their core beliefs, his faith and her altruism.
  — Jeff Baker, The Seattle Times, 10 May 2017
• An anonymous U.S. official cast doubt on the local account, suggesting that the entire town had ties to narco-traffickers.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, The Intercept, 24 May 2017
• Alfredo told Zune, insinuating that she might even be involved with the narcos.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Perez, a Cuban-American lawyer who has represented major narco-traffickers for decades, has been a fixture at the Colombian prison.
  — Jay Weaver and Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 9 Feb. 2018
• Not all of those farmers are claiming allegiance to narco-trafficking clans back in Mexico.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2018
• The Netherlands fulfills many characteristics of a narco-state.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
• For many, Colombia is synonymous with drug cartels and narco-traffickers.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 21 Aug. 2022
• The Harley-riding Rev. Timothy Riordan must decide whether to break the sanctity of confession to inform on narcos.
  — Simon Akam, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• The team used 15 metrics, including the size and speed of the deforestation, to build a model that could distinguish patches of narco-deforestation from other types of forest loss.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, Science | AAAS, 16 June 2017
• Cash-rich traffickers are even testing new technologies like drones and building ocean-crossing narco-submarines.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
• As Duterte’s sky-high approval ratings attest, his portrayal of the Philippines as a crime-ridden, near narco state enjoys popular support.
  — Time, 30 Apr. 2018
• There is no swimming pool, none of the ostentation that characterizes other narco properties in Sinaloa.
  — AndrÉs Villarreal, Chron, 14 Sep. 2021
• Mexican security forces call these vehicles monstruos (monsters), but they are also known as rinocerontes (rhinos) and narcotanques (narco-tanks).
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024