How to Use cartel in a Sentence

cartel

noun

• On top of this, a cartel now controls the area where Sanchez is from in Mexico.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
• Gus tries to calm things down with the cartel while Mike finishes up business north of the border.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
• At the time, the Colombian market worked as a co-op, not as a cartel, with local farmers pooling their product and profit.
  — Kristen McGuiness, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2022
• The cartel, the oil producing and exporting countries, many members of which are major oil producers.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2022
• As the scene plays out, viewers discover that Norris is there to negotiate land rights with a cartel that wants to run drugs through private roads that go through valuable oil fields.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
• The countries in the cartel, which is led by Saudi Arabia, needed to keep some of their oil capacity in reserve in case of future disruptions.
  — Josh Boak, ajc, 3 Aug. 2022
• Authorities have said Caro Quintero blamed Camarena for a raid on a marijuana grow controlled by his cartel.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 16 July 2022
• The suit alleged that the companies acted like a cartel, illegally conspiring to divvy up markets and avoid competing against one another, driving up customers’ prices.
  — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
• The cartel members drove them from place to place around the city.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
• Both the cartels and the government have a stake in how water is used.
  — Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2024
• Most who did asked not to be named, citing the volatility of the cartel.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 2022
• Two died when caught in the crossfire of rival drug cartel groups.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
• It was discovered the drugs were being supplied by the cartel, and the case opened wide.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• There is a lot of art talking about amazing things at the border that is not just about the fence and about drug cartels.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Scott Lawson, a rookie FBI agent at the time, broke the case that led to a high-stakes mission to topple the cartel.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
• Since then, the cartel has been raising output bit by bit.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2022
• Prices are also higher ahead of a meeting next week of the OPEC oil cartel.
  — Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• We're derailed from this track when the priest slides into the cartel warehouse.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
• But fentanyl is so easy and cheap to make that when cops capture a big batch, cartels just churn out more.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 20 June 2024
• In Season 1 of the series, the family fled agents, the cartel, and hitmen.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 Oct. 2022
• Not to mention, there are no drugs, no guns, there are no cartels, there are no zombies.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
• Guides paid by the Sinaloa cartel, leading people through one of numerous gaps in the wall.
  — Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
• And the cartel controls its employees with an iron fist.
  — Steve Fisher, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• Yes, that Stephen Sondheim; yes, that 2015 thriller about the world of Mexican drug cartels.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2024
• The morning after the killings, Boudreaux declared that the violence was likely the work of a drug cartel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• The cartel operatives take them to the border and drop them off near the break in the wall, according to the official.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• Guides who work for the cartels offer to lead entire families across the border through the desert.
  — Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 6 May 2024
• Agents wrote in court records that the brothers bought drugs from a cartel in Chihuahua, Mexico.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
• Pluma has performed several songs from the POV of a Sinaloa cartel member.
  — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• To name just one example: After an opening act filled with lurid cartel violence, Emilia Pérez gives us a comic number about gender-reassignment surgery.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024