How to Use smuggler in a Sentence

smuggler

noun
  • But the couple say they’ve been told that most of these smugglers are not caught.
    — David Culver, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Rios said that many ladders are knocked down in this way, but smugglers are clever.
    — Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Even Brock, a budgie smuggler in a satin suit, knows that this is a bad name.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The driver was headed north, which was good enough for the smugglers.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Now the smuggler, an Afghan man, urged Ahmed to climb the wall and jump.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Violent rebel groups and drug smugglers are known to hide out in the region.
    — Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
  • How his small tool to catch smugglers is making a big difference.
    — Meghan Pryce, CNN, 3 July 2024
  • His cattle get loose on the highway after smugglers slice his fences open.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
  • The war has also brought the work of cross-border smugglers to a standstill.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The route was created in the days when coastal patrols watched these shores for smugglers.
    — David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Adventure abounds when bird smugglers get involved and bird-nap the two macaws.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
  • An antiheroic smuggler, a spunky princess and a farmboy with big dreams.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • The top players were either gamblers, smugglers or both.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Trump fires back at B-1 bomber report while warning drug smugglers.
    — FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Driven by his thirst for power, Kitae works as an agent by day and a smuggler by night.
    — Sara Merican, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • When the smugglers’ boat finally slammed into the sand, four men jumped out and bolted for the trees.
    — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Dog shampoo bottles are among the many creative ways smugglers have tried to sneak meth in and out of the country.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
  • Now families are cut off from loved ones, and traders — even smugglers — hesitate to cross.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Two smugglers were later sentenced to decades in prison for that incident.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • When they were caught in Mexico, his smuggler abandoned him.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Yes, arrest the murderers, drug lords and gang members, thieves and smugglers.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Border Patrol had picked up a smuggler leading a team of migrants through thorny brush.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
  • 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
  • Adding to the challenge, some Haitian authorities are in league with the smugglers.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 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
  • Both paid smugglers thousands of dollars for dayslong treks through the Arizona desert.
    — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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