Example sentences for: rum-runners

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

  • In this haven for pirates and rum-runners, Samuel Cunard (1787–1865) founded his famous transatlantic shipping line with a fortune acquired in large part from privateering.

  • There’s little evidence left of the bad old days of Prohibition when merchants and rum-runners here made fortunes smuggling liquor into the United States.

  • Scores of lighthouses along Nova Scotia’s south shore trace a sawtoothed route of coves that over the ages offered shelter to pirates, rum-runners, and fishermen.


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