Example sentences for: contraband

How can you use “contraband” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Police say they have rescued two spider monkeys who had been trained to sell contraband drugs by recognizing the colors of different currency.

  • ' Some of it is Australian underworld slang: fruit for the sideboard `easy pickings,' tank a `safe,' track `prison warder who carries contraband messages or goods out of or into a prison for a prisoner.

  • The inspection activities are for a variety of purposes: to ensure that dutiable merchandise is declared, to seize contraband (such as narcotics and illegal drugs), to detect infringements of patent and copyright laws, and so forth.

  • Smugglers often stashed contraband close to sensitive equipment, or among the in-flight food.

  • Counterterrorism investigations often overlap or are cued by other criminal investigations, such as money laundering or the smuggling of contraband.


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