Example sentences for: smuggled

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

  • 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."

  • "These things are in such short supply in North Korea that they have to be smuggled in in the stomachs of South Korean cows."

  • All this information was contained in "the Mitrokhin archive"--a vast haul of documents smuggled out of Russia by Vasili Mitrokhin, 77, a former KGB archivist who defected to Britain in 1992.

  • Common forms of yellow, green, and silver arowana were made to appear like red arowana by being treated with hormones imported from Singapore; the fish were then smuggled into Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

  • 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.


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