Example sentences for: illicit

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

  • Haven for illicit 10-digit dialing is the death knell.

  • The United States berates China for human rights abuses and illicit transfer of defense technology; Chinese officials see U.S. policy as inconsistent and hypocritical--President Clinton has sent mixed messages about Taiwan and most favored nation status.

  • Nixon's presidency limped to its denouement by way of a grim paradox: His lieutenants were soon suspected of conducting illicit operations of such high stakes and complexity that only a senior official would have supervised them.

  • While efforts to shut down Libya's illegal nuclear program have been generally successful, Pakistan's illicit trade and the nuclear smuggling networks of Pakistani scientist A.Q.

  • 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).


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