How to Use illicit in a Sentence

illicit

adjective

• She had an illicit affair with her boss.
• He was arrested for selling illicit copies of the software.
• Take the time to speak to your kids about the dangers of illicit substances, how to avoid and manage peer pressure, and what to look for.
  — Nickolaus Hayes, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
• Further, a loss of access could drive some to seek illicit sources of the drugs, which could turn deadly.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024
• There was a crackle of illicit energy from the big man.
  — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Picture a flask of vodka passed across a corpse, a pool of blood lit up by neon signs, an illicit kiss soundtracked by screams.
  — Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
• Xi agreed to help curb the production of the illicit fentanyl that is a deadly component of drugs sold in the United States.
  — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
• Used syringes contain residue or small amounts of illicit drugs and having one of those could lead to a drug posession charge.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024
• Law enforcement, meanwhile, has been unable to keep up with the spread of illicit sales and growing.
  — Michael R. Blood, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
• So far however, the stream of illicit substances has not ceased.
  — Hira Humayun and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• In most of the trials, the charges were significantly reduced or outright dropped when the illicit use of snitches in the case came to light.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• That year, the ship made three illicit coal runs to North Korea, according to researchers.
  — Dera Menra Sijabat, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• The bliss of first bites, illicit cherries jubilee, Miyazaki’s gluttons ... and the crookie?
  — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
• The Colorado State Patrol is on track to seize 300 percent more illicit fentanyl this year than last.
  — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• And illicit funds, like those from theft, phishing or ponzi schemes, account for $8 million, or 0.02%.
  — Taylor Locke, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
• The Sinaloa cartel has been not only one of the main purveyors of fentanyl to the U.S. market but a key supplier of illicit drugs around the world.
  — Eduardo Porter, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• Late in the season, Cruz tumbles into an illicit affair with someone at the heart of her mission.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The Justice Department will have final say over whether to pursue the death penalty for Dominguez-Nieves, who was not on the boat during the illicit trip.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
• Anyway, the tryst becomes illicit, which is the point for Candy. Candy decides to take a shower.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• But Thai gun experts say most illicit firearms are used for crimes other than homicide.
  — Time, 6 Oct. 2022
• And there are a lot of counterfeit pills on the market and some of those counterfeit pills have fentanyl and other kind of scary illicit stuff in them.
  — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2022
• Many captains now carry illicit firecrackers on board to throw at the whales.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 29 May 2024
• But that decision took time to evolve and not from a desire to strike an illicit deal to cheat the system, Huffman insisted.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• That’s a joy that pervades the book, despite a subplot involving an illicit romance that ends in tragedy.
  — Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
• Huge amounts of illicit materials, yards and yards of this wretched stuff.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
• The 321-foot vessel was where many of the illicit discussions took place, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 July 2023
• His surname is derived from Ar-Ramtha, a city on the northern edge of Jordan which grew prosperous through the illicit transit of goods in and out of the country.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• Even knowing the risks, millions of Americans still opt to stream or download via illicit means.
  — Gavin Bridge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
• The younger Biden had denied use of illicit drugs while filling out that form — a claim that was a lie, as some tawdry testimony at his trial made clear.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
• Three men have accepted plea deals in the 2022 attack of a gambling den patron who was allegedly stripped nude and beaten to a pulp inside the illicit casino.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2025