Sentence examples for now contraband from inspiring English sources

Most of the shopping at National is outside the secure areas, but a passenger who bought something that is now contraband would not be able to carry it onto the plane, so the store has stopped selling such items.

I didn't have the heart to break it to her that she was now illegal contraband and could be taken away by the faceless brutes of animal control.

Now, like strange contraband, a tatty paperback will set you back £35.

In his hands Aziz holds a cheap and battered mobile phone – once an item of contraband, now permitted and a precious lifeline to the outside world.

The secret police bust into a Beijing apartment, unplug the server and cut the Internet connection only to find out that the movement is now hosting the contraband ideas on some other server, maybe outside of China.

In his father's time, Roncal and Barétous shepherds met on the mountains to hunt bears and barter contraband; now, in dwindling numbers, they moan about bureaucratic interference ('Every time a sheep farts I have to fill out a form,' sighs Jean-Marc).

Any contraband is now swiftly confiscated.

Now Ryan fished the contraband from under his desk and found some paper cups.

Such openness has its drawbacks though, since drug smugglers are now suspected of passing contraband across from Mexico to the United States.

"I can tell you the most lucrative illegal contraband here now is not drugs, but people," said Efrain Martinez, the Agua Prieta city manager.

Embellishments appropriate to that era are often featured, from movies like House Party to Saturday morning cartoons like Scooby Doo on flat-screen TVs to strategically placed bowls of elementary school contraband like Now & Laters and Jolly Ranchers.