How to Use contraband in a Sentence

contraband

noun

• The border police searched the car for drugs and other contraband.
• Authorities don’t know how much contraband makes it through the tunnels before they are found and blocked.
  — Kevin Sieff, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
• The contraband, bought in Libya, could be sold in Italy for a large markup by skirting high import duties.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• Dogs have a particularly sharp sense of smell and have long been used in airports to sniff out bombs, drugs and other contraband in luggage.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• McKinstry’s daughter was sent to the nurse’s office and forced to undress so that she could be searched for contraband that did not exist.
  — Erica L. Green, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• Detection dog are utilized daily to find contraband foods, plants and other substances at airports and sea ports.
  — Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 17 Oct. 2020
• Behind him were several sacks of contraband cigarettes.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• That hasn’t stopped hundreds of shadowy companies, many based abroad, from effectively hawking contraband.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
• The checkpoints are meant to stop human, drug, and contraband smuggling that went undetected initially crossing the border.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2020
• Every Thursday afternoon for months, my wife and I toted a contraband six-pack and a couple of camp chairs to the park to meet two other couples.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024
• Special handling involves staff checking legal mail for contraband in the prisoner's presence, but staff aren't permitted to read the contents.
  — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2020
• This contraband doesn’t enter a facility without the assistance of staff; the smuggling racket often entices guards, who aren’t well-paid.
  — Chandra Bozelko, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• Why had Evangelos Marinakis taken such interest in Yiannousakis and his contraband ship?
  — Alexander Clapp, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
• Since then, federal prosecutors have linked the gang to at least 15 murders, drug dealing, contraband smuggling schemes, arsons, robberies and extortion plots.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
• Police seized the contraband and sent the man, 22, of Erie, Pa., on his way.
  — cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
• The contraband are all over the United States, the agency said.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2021
• The contraband was not in plain sight and the officer asked if the nursing staff could search the patient.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• She was found to be in possession of a contraband cell phone.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2023
• The clear designs are meant to prevent the tablets from being used to store contraband or weapons.
  — Gabrielle Caplan, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• The detainee then took the contraband on a bus back to Rikers Island.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
• However, a search of the Dodge didn’t yield any contraband.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 5 May 2021
• Officials say the drones have been used to drop contraband.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• Cheaters have been caught sneaking off to the bathroom to check moves on contraband smartphones.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• Better like fights and, and suicides and contraband use.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 July 2022
• All contraband that customs agents are trained to catch.
  — Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
• She was imaged by X-ray; the images showed no contraband.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• The trooper found two traps used to conceal contraband in the floorboard, the affidavit says.
  — Stephanie Gosk, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
• And police could no longer use the odor of cannabis as a reason for searching someone’s car for contraband.
  — Frank Miles, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2021
• And police could no longer use the odor of cannabis as a reason for searching someone's car for contraband.
  — Marina Villeneuve and Jennifer Peltz, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• During the long, long months when Russian forces were in charge, the national flag was contraband.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 13 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024