smuggle - use in sentences

Object

  • cocaine: Toby Muse: " US troops tried to smuggle cocaine " , The Guardian, April 9, 2005.
  • antiquity: In April, Yemeni police arrested a three-man gang trying to smuggle pre-Islamic antiquities over the border into Saudi Arabia.
  • diamond: So the thieves decide to smuggle the diamond to London.

Preposition: on

  • board: But how do you smuggle on board the necessary guidance system?

Preposition: through

  • custom: Guns and ammunition are much more difficult to smuggle through customs than drugs are!

Preposition: into

  • camp: The French newspapers, smuggled into camp, carried stories of axis defeats on all fronts.
  • country: Check out the UK purchase circle to see which DVDs us Brits are trying to smuggle into the country at the moment.

Modifying Another Word

  • abroad: Warbeck was purported to have been rescued before his brother Edward V had been murdered in the Tower and smuggled abroad to safety.
  • back: These cigarettes are then entering the black market, to be smuggled back into the UK.
  • away: At a further meeting the Riot Act was read and the vicar was smuggled away by the military.
  • then: The baby chimpanzees are then smuggled by boat or plane, across the world.
  • often: These DVDs are often smuggled by criminal networks involved in large scale piracy.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • out: We were smuggled out of Beirut back to Canada in 1984.

Preposition: in

  • container: This is because cigarettes smuggled in freight containers are never purchased tax-paid anywhere.

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