Example sentences for: smugglers

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

  • Smugglers often stashed contraband close to sensitive equipment, or among the in-flight food.

  • And, says the Times , citing U.S. intelligence, drug flights into Mexico ceased in late 1995, shortly that is, after the start of the vexed program--with smugglers putting their loads on container ships instead.

  • In the Treaty of Nanking (1842) China was compelled to open five of its ports to foreign economic and political penetration, and even to compensate the opium smugglers for their losses.

  • Aside from Weaver, there's another wild card--Winona Ryder as an enigmatic character named Annalee Call, who comes on board the station with a team of smugglers and an agenda of her own.

  • Unlike the traditional Medellin and Cali cartels, these traffickers maintain a low profile, do not commit terrorist acts, are tech-savvy, and reduce their organizational structure by merging licit and illicit business and by hiring outside smugglers on a per-job basis.


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