How to Use smuggle in a Sentence

smuggle

verb
  • The paintings had been smuggled out of the country before the war.
  • We smuggled his favorite sandwich past the nurse.
  • He was arrested for smuggling drugs into the country.
  • They smuggled immigrants across the border.
  • They were smashed up and came to me and asked me to smuggle out some tapes.
    David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Gotta love Rachel trying to smuggle rice out of the challenge, though.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Why, from your point of view, is smuggling itself not the problem?
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • Xie had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to smuggle goods from the U.S. in May.
    al, 7 Sep. 2021
  • More frequently, they are smuggled live for the pet trade.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The prisoners who snapped them took great risks to steal and smuggle cameras, and to hide the rolls of film after they were shot.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The three swords that were attempted to be smuggled into the US arrived from Russia and the axe head from Ukraine, the agency said.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Much of this contraband had been smuggled in by drones that drop off items in prison yards, often overnight.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In desperation, Baskerville led a group of fighters to slip past the blockade and smuggle in food.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • He is accused of smuggling people and causing the shipwreck.
    Karam Shoumali, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • Her search for the female soldier who helped smuggle them out of the country brings her back to Liberia and a conclusion that moved me to tears.
    Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • An unknown number of sacred statues of Hindu deities were stolen and smuggled abroad in the past.
    Binaj Gurubacharya, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Princip’s likeness had to be sawed into pieces and smuggled out of Europe, losing its nose in the fray.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Agents allege in court documents that its planes were used to smuggle drugs.
    Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2021
  • His plan was to smuggle the trunks to northern cities to infect people and decimate Union forces.
    TIME, 4 May 2024
  • Malik and Deevers attempt to smuggle Vesili out through the garage while Ressler and Dembe hold off the shooters in a firefight.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • However, the intrepid artist managed to smuggle his work out the country to Venice.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The video falsely claimed Bellingcat found evidence that Ukraine had smuggled weapons to Hamas.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Despite that hit, and damage from a bomb smuggled onto the bridge in a truck, Russia has continued to use the bridge.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Ahab and his friends decide to smuggle it into Canada, where there may (or may not) be a suitable mate for it.
    Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The group has successfully used tunnels to smuggle goods and fighters into, out of, and around Gaza for years.
    Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
  • At the time, San Juan was a major drug hub, with dealers using the city as an entry point to smuggle drugs into the United States.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The first involved building a fleet of fast blockade runners that could get past the Union ships and smuggle necessary weapons into the South.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
  • She had been kidnapped from Japan two years earlier, stuffed into a bag and smuggled on a boat to North Korea.
    Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Flashback: Y'all remember when someone tried to smuggle meth in Zatarain's seafood boil seasoning?
    Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In April, a sheriff’s deputy who was part of a task force focused on keeping the county lockups free of drugs and gang activity was arrested and accused of smuggling drugs into one of the county jails.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024

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