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.
• More frequently, they are smuggled live for the pet trade.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
• Gotta love Rachel trying to smuggle rice out of the challenge, though.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2024
• In May, seven officers were charged with taking bribes to smuggle drugs, scalpels and cellphones into the jails.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• They are cast as old friends who risk their lives to smuggle funds into Germany that will assist the anti-Nazi cause and rescue hundreds.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2021
• Passengers have also been known to conceal live animals in their clothes in an attempt to smuggle them through security.
  — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• The company then came up with Returnal, an attempt to smuggle the designs its staff cherished into a form that would appeal to the mass market.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2021
• Petersen received his six-year federal sentence in Arkansas for conspiring to smuggle people.
  — Jacques Billeaud, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Why, from your point of view, is smuggling itself not the problem?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024