Example Sentences

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“You’re not going to earn our votes if you bring somebody who we feel traffics in language that is harmful to us,” he said.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

Consign Design traffics in luxury labels like Brunello, Prada, Gucci and Hermès, along with top-drawer skiwear, while Capelet Consign brims with AG, Theory, Veronica Beard and Ulla Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Pecker described his business as "checkbook journalism" and agreed with Colangelo that he traffics in "juicy stories."

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024

The play traffics in TV tropes and formulas.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

I can recall but two unconnected lines:   "With eye that looks around with asking gaze,   And tongue that traffics in the trade of praise."

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph