smuggler

Example Sentences

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After a visit home, I returned to campus with a stockpile, like a confectionery smuggler crossing state lines with sugary contraband stuffed between sweatshirts in my suitcase.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Fewer people are leaving because "not everyone can pay" the elevated costs of the people smuggler, he adds.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Millions of people, using sophisticated smuggler networks, have started turning up at the borders of industrialized countries, many of them economic migrants who aren’t in imminent danger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Just a week earlier, customs officials said they had arrested another smuggler carrying snakes, tortoises and a raccoon.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

"Renly's made his own Kingsguard," the onetime smuggler explained, "but these seven don't wear white. Each one has his own color. Loras TyrelTs their Lord Commander."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin