smuggle

Example Sentences

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Hiding vegetables in food is usually framed as a parenting tactic — a way to smuggle spinach past a suspicious toddler.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

"The Weight" features Russell Crowe and Ethan Hawke in a tale of a man forced to smuggle gold through the lethal wilderness of Depression-era rural Oregon.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Last week, Chinese border police foiled an effort by two men attempting to smuggle 500 pounds of silver into the country from Hong Kong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

You may remember those matches from “Forrest Gump,” but Tom Hanks’ guileless sweetheart would never use the sport to smuggle gold bars out of Hong Kong, as the real Reisman once did.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

A few months after they began to go out together, he began to smuggle her into his rooms, where he lived like a helpless, exiled prince.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy