How to Use black-market in a Sentence

black-market

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• The black-market price of dollars continues to tick up.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• That hasn't stopped groups from getting access through black-market means, though.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 1 May 2024
• The price of many goods is now set by the black-market value of the dollar, which rose to around 70 pounds to the dollar last month, compared with about 16 before the crisis.
  — Nada Rashwan, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• The moon rocks given to leaders outside the country have been more susceptible to loss, theft, and black-market sales.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2023
• The core of Milam’s appeal is the charismatic narrative of his rise from black-market hustler to mogul.
  — Ezra Marcus, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Milk, eggs, vegetables, black-market gasoline: all these things were doubling in price, and then doubling again.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Rather than fade into the obscurity to which she has been doomed, Elisabeth takes a gamble on a black-market drug called the Substance.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• An ex-marine, Owens finds himself in a gunfight with a black-market firearms dealer named Slade, who smashes Owens’ vidder.
  — Jeff Calder, ajc, 3 Apr. 2023
• Garland said the Justice Department was also working to crack down on black-market guns.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2024
• People with dollar accounts can only withdraw small amounts in Lebanese pounds at an exchange rate far below the black-market rate.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Mar. 2023
• Darra Adam Khel, which lies 85 miles west of Islamabad, is infamous for its sprawling black-market weapons bazaar.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2023
• Some metals found in catalytic converters are more valuable than gold and the black-market price can be more than $1,000 each, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
  — USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2024
• Jackie is training for a competition in Las Vegas, and Lou, who has a nice little black-market steroid business running through the gym, helps her juice.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
• In both films, enterprising young men left in the lurch by a national financial crisis must resort to black-market fishing to, well, stay afloat.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 July 2023
• And while the United States still bans purchases from the state oil company, the country has increased black-market oil sales to China through Iran, energy experts said.
  — Frances Robles Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Extraction follows a black-market mercenary (Chris Hemsworth) who is hired to rescue the son of an international crime lord who is kidnapped in Bangladesh.
  — Brooke Lamantia, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
• His grandfather, who migrated from Tunisia to Belleville in 1956, opened the butcher shop just outside the subway station by a busy street corner where young men now hawk black-market cartons of cigarettes for cash.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
• And the year prior, authorities busted a black-market caviar ring in California.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• Funds for programming, national salaries, and procurement of local medicines, goods, and services must be paid to the central bank in dollars at the official exchange rate, which is 20 to 25 percent lower than the black-market rate.
  — Annie Sparrow, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2018
• The shift to heroin and fentanyl Even as hydrocodone and oxycodone were still saturating the country in the early 2010s, users were already turning to heroin, which delivered the same euphoria for a fraction of the cost of a black-market pain pill.
  — David Ovalle, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Instead, Washington should pursue a series of bilateral agreements to prevent the spread of black-market ransomware tools.
  — Sue Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
• The film is a self-reflexive Hollywood tale that stars Moore as a veteran actress who uses a black-market drug to create a younger, better version of herself (Margaret Qualley).
  — EW.com, 30 May 2024
• North Korea’s civilian economy, led by underground entrepreneurs, took a hit from the border closures barring black-market trade with China.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
• Stewart’s character sells black-market steroids, which is only the catalyst for their relationship.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2024
• The peso’s unofficial, black-market rate is currently trading around 1,070 per dollar.
  — Ryan Dubé, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• At the same time, a new cottage industry of black-market moped brokers has emerged to serve — and sometimes prey upon — the newest migrants, who arrive with little money, no bank account and no tax ID or Social Security number.
  — Andrew Silverstein, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Many of them were overdose victims who unwittingly took black-market painkillers or recreational drugs laced with the lethal synthetic opioid that are being mass-produced by Mexican drug cartels.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• Isolated from Western parts and technology, and desperately needing to keep its fleet of F-14s flying, Iran resorted to a network of spies, smugglers, and black-market profiteers.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Julie has covered murderous pot deals, police corruption and marijuana's rocky path from a black-market trade to a legitimate industry.
  — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2023
• When it was conceived in 2009, the Indian government hoped that a new digital payment system could help the unbanked, eliminate black-market activity, and reduce money printing costs.
  — Maju Kuruvilla, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023

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black market

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• They unloaded the stolen goods on the black market.
• The black market in prescription drugs is thriving.
• That empowers the black market, with its exorbitant prices and dicey goods.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2021
• At some private hospitals, patients were asked to purchase oxygen on the black market.
  — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 28 May 2021
• Many are paying the equivalent of several months’ salary to buy oxygen cylinders on the black market.
  — David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• On the black market, a single medical record can sell for upward of $1,000.
  — Marion Renault, STAT, 23 May 2021
• The black market thrives, charging astronomical prices.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
• After clearing port customs, the shipments disappear into the EU’s black market.
  — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• Indian citizens are now buying medicines and hospital beds and oxygen cylinders at astronomical prices in the black market.
  — Time, 7 May 2021
• The black market for oxygen concentrators in India is booming while people are suffocating.
  — Simran Jeet Singh, Time, 14 May 2021
• As such, the DEA controls its production levels to ensure demand is met while preventing excess supply that could find its way to the black market.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
• Elsewhere, sanctions have pushed autocratic regimes into black market trade, empowering criminal networks and gangs of smugglers.
  — Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• Steel was tougher to come by than a kidney on the black market.
  — Laura Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2022
• On the black market, one dollar can be sold for as many as 33 pounds.
  — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
• From there, the products are sold off, sometimes fenced on the black market.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
• Our state was losing out to our neighbors and the black market.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• Even your call records can be accessed, we’ve been told, on the black market.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• To get their cash, though, the crooks are going to need to resell those goods on the black market.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2021
• Few think a couple of arrests in the state will put much of a dent in the black market for bourbon.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• The case underscores the role that the U.S.-Mexico border plays in the thriving black market for wildlife.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022
• Marceno said the boys were taking steps to learn how to construct pipe bombs and how to obtain firearms on the black market.
  — Adam Regan, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021
• Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road website, was found guilty of multiple felonies tied to the black market site.
  — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 25 May 2024
• Golfers sue city of L.A., calling out failure to stop black market in tee times.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• The shortages also led to a boom in the black market, which price gouged oxygen cylinders and medicine.
  — Jessie Yeung, Rhea Mogul and Swati Gupta, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• Critics said the ban could lead to what is essentially a black market for the drugs.
  — Georgy Birger, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Some have even grown desperate enough to sell their organs on the black market.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 8 May 2022
• Those wishing to secure their own flour or semolina must resort to the marché noir – the black market.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• The decision was a hedge against desertion or the selling of weapons on the black market.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2021
• Both Paxlovid and Molnupiravir are being sold for as much as eight times the market price on the black market.
  — Time, 16 Jan. 2023
• The cartels then package the fentanyl into other drugs like Xanax and Adderrall, and ship them to the U.S. to be sold on the black market.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024