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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Dhows are small fishing or cargo vessels that are sometimes used by Iran to smuggle weapons.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Rather than reporting the find to the government, as required by law, locals sold the statues, which were then smuggled out of the country.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• The father showed his son his new U.S.-made M16 assault rifle, smuggled in from Jordan.
  — Fatima Abdulkarim, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• Mummert pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle goods and was sentenced last year in Plano to three years in prison.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
• The change is being made to try and head off a trend of people soaking letters in drugs to smuggle them past authorities.
  — Maysoon Khan, ajc, 14 Aug. 2022
• The drugs, valued at more than $43 million, are primarily smuggled into the country by U.S. citizens through ports of entry.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• The triggering scents included pangolin scales, elephant ivory, rhino horn, and African blackwood, all of which are smuggled and all of which are considered in danger of extinction.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024