Example sentences for: illegally

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

  • Two Algerians--one of whom was carrying bomb-making materials--have been arrested in the last week while trying to enter the United States illegally from Canada.

  • Russia's on-again, off-again prosecutor, Yuri Skuratov, told the LAT that 780 current and former government officials are under investigation for illegally trading government securities that were suspicious to begin with.

  • USA Today leads with the call by Teamsters union presidential candidate James P. Hoffa for a special prosecutor to look into allegations that union president Ron Carey and the Democratic party may have been illegally funding each other in 1996.

  • In short, money laundering is the conversion of illegally obtained profits into funds that appear legitimate--that is, making "dirty" money "clean."

  • I'm not talking about things like the exclusionary rule, which prohibits jurors from seeing evidence that was gathered illegally.


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