bootlegging

Example Sentences

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With four simple words, a sport that was born out of bootlegging, good ole boys and fast cars graduated from a regional sideshow to a national spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

By 1987, bootlegging caused tax revenues to fall by some 100 billion rubles.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022

“We’re in an impossible situation that’s reminiscent of the Prohibition era, where the federal government prohibited alcoholic beverages, bootlegging was rampant, and that’s exactly what’s happening in the District today,” Mendelson said.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

Tribes across Alaska have courts that decide child protection, adoption cases, bootlegging and other cases, but their power over non-members is limited.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver