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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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