Sentence examples for smuggle from inspiring English sources
'smuggle' is a correct and commonly used word in written English
The word 'smuggle' means to move something or someone illegally from one place to another. It is often used in the context of illegal trade, smuggling of contraband goods, or transporting people without permission. Example: The customs officers arrested a man for attempting to smuggle drugs through the airport.
verb
To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
"It involves organised criminal networks which smuggle drugs, weapons and people.
In April 2008, Hagan tried and failed to smuggle a camera into the hospital, the court heard.
In one bizarre episode, Buhari fell out with Britain, the former colonial power, after attempting to smuggle Shagari's former adviser Umaru Dikko from London to Lagos.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have been held since early March on Nusa Kambangan, the island off Java where Indonesian authorities intend to execute them for their role in the attempt to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin.
I'm trying to put the grandkids through school.'" Over the past two decades such private military contractors (to use the respectable term) have gone into battle in Angola, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan, and been linked to a failed plot to smuggle Muammar Gaddafi out of Libya.
The report also cites increasingly sophisticated techniques, which include dissolving the drug in solvents to smuggle it across the border disguised as flavoured drinks or hidden in windshield wiper reservoirs.
This would obviate the need for them to smuggle themselves in illegally – and dangerously.
Syria A Jordanian security official says border police have arrested five Syrians trying to smuggle a large cache of arms into the kingdom.
The jury was told that they went on to hatch a plan nicknamed "The Project" to smuggle in a camera to take pictures and videos of the Moors Murderer – which would have been the first since his mugshot was released in 1966.
They have arrested many people who were trying to smuggle food to the city through this bridge.
He managed to smuggle a camera into the hospital but the resulting pictures were not of a good enough quality and they were not published.
