Example sentences for: smuggled

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

  • The anti-impotence drug is illegal there but when smuggled in can bring up to $80 per pill.

  • I can't remember how I did it, but somehow I smuggled those records back to my barracks and got them home intact on my next furlough.

  • Throughout the 1990s, a vast syndicate that included prominent Communist party officials, members of the Chinese military, and business leaders, smuggled an estimated ten billion dollars worth of cars, oil, and high-tech hardware into China through the port of Xiamen.

  • The Mexicans were smuggled into the United States, miserably housed, and forced to peddle $1 trinkets (in places like the subway) to make money for their "pimps."

  • But in 1526, smuggled copies of Tyndale's heretical translation of the New Testament began appearing in England, to the great consternation of the establishment, including Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, and Sir Thomas More, and to the lasting glory of the English language.


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