rumrunner

Example Sentences

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A Detroit chorus girl weds her stage producer without telling her rumrunner boyfriend.

From Los Angeles Times

“And we worked on the rumrunners’ boats, too,” he adds with a laugh.

From Seattle Times

But as the lone branch of the military that serves as a law-enforcement agency, the 227-year-old service has also long been in the business of interdicting contraband, from Chinese opium smugglers to Prohibition rumrunners.

From New York Times

The Coast Guard was unable to stop them because the rumrunners got good at concealing their operations using coded radio messages.

From National Geographic

Before Rupolo, several reputed mobsters and gamblers and at least one rumrunner disappeared from New York and were believed to have been encased in or weighed down with concrete.

From Seattle Times