How to Use smuggler in a Sentence

smuggler

noun
  • Even Brock, a budgie smuggler in a satin suit, knows that this is a bad name.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Laced through his search for the teacher and for the secret in the Twyford books (was Twyford a spy or a smuggler?
    Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The huge bales are often dumped at sea and picked up by drug smugglers on boats.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 July 2023
  • Once in Tijuana, the smugglers led him and his group to a hole in the border fence.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • With hours on the clock, Ripley 8 and the smugglers must unite and stop the aliens and military workers.
    Rendy Jones, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Human smugglers organized for the group to fly from Karachi to Dubai, and then on to Egypt and Libya.
    Anna Coren, CNN, 15 July 2023
  • In response to the blimps, Customs says most drug smugglers started to land ahead of the border and head for the U.S. by land.
    Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The route was created in the days when coastal patrols watched these shores for smugglers.
    David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
  • This novel follows the life of a smuggler in the titular town of Artemis, the first (and maybe last) human colony on the moon.
    Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Violent rebel groups and drug smugglers are known to hide out in the region.
    Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In 1985, a bear was found dead in the forests of Georgia after eating a brick of cocaine dropped by a smuggler.
    Vulture, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Kirby Adams: The bear seems to have more of a prominent role in the movie than the actual drug smuggler.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But the smugglers, to whom some of the passengers had paid as much as nine thousand dollars, urged them to board.
    Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Adding to the challenge, some Haitian authorities are in league with the smugglers.
    Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The smuggler scrolled through his list of photographs, matching pictures to the faces of the people standing in front of him.
    Matt Rivers, ABC News, 10 June 2024
  • Still, that did not stop smugglers from cutting holes in the wall in broad daylight at the peak of border crossings last year.
    Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Sometimes, a survivor from the shipwreck will get in touch, or a smuggler will share the passenger list from a lost ship.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • His cattle get loose on the highway after smugglers slice his fences open.
    Arelis R. Hernández, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
  • The drug smuggler, who was the son of a wealthy Kentucky family of horse breeders, didn't fare too well either.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The United States traded him for a Russian drug smuggler who had spent a dozen years behind bars.
    Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Those who went, Mr. Wahab said, were from the middle class, able to afford plane tickets and smuggler fees.
    Abby Sewell, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Facebook removed this and hundreds of other smuggler posts flagged by The Times.
    Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • How his small tool to catch smugglers is making a big difference.
    Meghan Pryce, CNN, 3 July 2024
  • Back in the ’80s, authorities found that a bear consumed the contents of a duffel bag dropped by a drug smuggler from a plane above.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 July 2023
  • From there, the migrants, along with asylum seekers from other nations, are whisked north by bus with the help of smugglers.
    Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Last month, one smuggler attempted to fly a drone cradling a shopping bag full of guns across the Canadian border in the middle of the night.
    Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 12 June 2022
  • Cerna said the flow of migrants over the years has left clothes strewn across his 24-acre property and smugglers have broken gates to let the migrants through.
    John C. Moritz, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Border Patrol had picked up a smuggler leading a team of migrants through thorny brush.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
  • Pedro took them to Honduras, where other smugglers took over in Honduras and then Guatemala.
    Jay Root, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Luckily, after taking down the smuggler and surviving a plane crash, the duo are able to sneak into the prison.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 May 2022

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