smuggled
Example Sentences
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As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Pesticides prohibited in Kenya are sometimes smuggled across this porous border with Tanzania and used in farms within the Amboseli area, where elephants live near human settlements and are known to raid farms for food.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
A video also smuggled out of prison showed him singing a patriotic song in the prison yard ahead of execution.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Over the past six months, prices for smuggled Nvidia chips have more than doubled, according to Chinese distributors, due to tightened U.S. enforcement and shipping delays in the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“My mother smuggled that to me when I was young. Told me to hide it,” he says.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
