How to Use smuggler in a Sentence

smuggler

noun

• Even Brock, a budgie smuggler in a satin suit, knows that this is a bad name.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021
• Laced through his search for the teacher and for the secret in the Twyford books (was Twyford a spy or a smuggler?
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• The huge bales are often dumped at sea and picked up by drug smugglers on boats.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 July 2023
• Once in Tijuana, the smugglers led him and his group to a hole in the border fence.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
• With hours on the clock, Ripley 8 and the smugglers must unite and stop the aliens and military workers.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
• Human smugglers organized for the group to fly from Karachi to Dubai, and then on to Egypt and Libya.
  — Anna Coren, CNN, 15 July 2023
• In response to the blimps, Customs says most drug smugglers started to land ahead of the border and head for the U.S. by land.
  — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• The route was created in the days when coastal patrols watched these shores for smugglers.
  — David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
• This novel follows the life of a smuggler in the titular town of Artemis, the first (and maybe last) human colony on the moon.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 1 Dec. 2020
• Violent rebel groups and drug smugglers are known to hide out in the region.
  — Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
• In 1985, a bear was found dead in the forests of Georgia after eating a brick of cocaine dropped by a smuggler.
  — Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
• Kirby Adams: The bear seems to have more of a prominent role in the movie than the actual drug smuggler.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• But the smugglers, to whom some of the passengers had paid as much as nine thousand dollars, urged them to board.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Adding to the challenge, some Haitian authorities are in league with the smugglers.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• The smuggler scrolled through his list of photographs, matching pictures to the faces of the people standing in front of him.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 June 2024
• Still, that did not stop smugglers from cutting holes in the wall in broad daylight at the peak of border crossings last year.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
• Serhii’s journey back to the land of the living leads him to the frontlines and the Chop Pirates, a group of former smugglers from Transcarpathia.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
• Sometimes, a survivor from the shipwreck will get in touch, or a smuggler will share the passenger list from a lost ship.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• His cattle get loose on the highway after smugglers slice his fences open.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
• The drug smuggler, who was the son of a wealthy Kentucky family of horse breeders, didn't fare too well either.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2022
• The United States traded him for a Russian drug smuggler who had spent a dozen years behind bars.
  — Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Those who went, Mr. Wahab said, were from the middle class, able to afford plane tickets and smuggler fees.
  — Abby Sewell, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2023
• Facebook removed this and hundreds of other smuggler posts flagged by The Times.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• How his small tool to catch smugglers is making a big difference.
  — Meghan Pryce, CNN, 3 July 2024
• Back in the ’80s, authorities found that a bear consumed the contents of a duffel bag dropped by a drug smuggler from a plane above.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
• From there, the migrants, along with asylum seekers from other nations, are whisked north by bus with the help of smugglers.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Last month, one smuggler attempted to fly a drone cradling a shopping bag full of guns across the Canadian border in the middle of the night.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 12 June 2022
• Cerna said the flow of migrants over the years has left clothes strewn across his 24-acre property and smugglers have broken gates to let the migrants through.
  — John C. Moritz, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Border Patrol had picked up a smuggler leading a team of migrants through thorny brush.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
• Officials fight the flow of contraband through the arrest of smugglers and mass searches.
  — Jeff Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024