Example sentences for: contraband

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

  • As the war went on, speedy and camouflaged contraband vessels were built to slip past the ever-increasing Federal patrols.

  • A tobacco industry lawyer is quoted in the NYT saying that the measure would lead to "a massive contraband market," and would "almost certainly drive companies into bankruptcy."

  • 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.

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

  • ' 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.


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