Example sentences for: illicit

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

  • Besides, when it comes to illicit goings-on by European politicians, I'm afraid the usual American responses are, in order: 1) Who?

  • The CWC allows any member country to inspect any site--public or private--it suspects of producing illicit chemicals in another member country.

  • Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).

  • In recent years there has been considerable focus on the recovery of illicit psychoactive substances and their metabolites from hair [ 4, 5, 6].

  • One comes away from the exhibit with a sense of the power of raw imagery that one may not have felt since the grade-school days of reading illicit comics when one was supposed to be learning the dates of battle sequences through history.


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