Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for smuggle. Search instead for schmuggelwege.
Definitions

smuggle

[smuhg-uhl] / ˈsmʌg əl /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Super Micro also recently completed an investigation into an alleged scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips into China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Do not smuggle in assumptions from the past.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Last Thursday's arrest follows that of a 23-year-old Thai citizen in July, also caught at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, who was attempting to smuggle 418 parrot eggs.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Many said they planned to conceal the symbol to smuggle it into the stadium.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Instead he would smuggle himself into the city, as he might have done twenty years before.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

After the war, when the princess decides to defect to the West, a river-barge captain nicknamed St. Peter smuggles her past communist guards in a sealed, nearly full water tank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Neither simplistically optimistic nor preachy, “Hoppers” smuggles timely ideas inside a rodent body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Treating occurrences as things that exist smuggles confusion into our language and concepts.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

Graham Norton once noted that "she uses humour like a Trojan horse, in which she smuggles in all sorts of difficult issues."

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

El Tirindaro is a subspecies of coyote known as a patero, because he smuggles people into the United States by pushing them across the river on inner tubes while paddling like a pato, or duck.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Though he added that "smuggled in there is a bit of satire".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Jeremy told the Supreme Court: "There was no reason why, if Ben Field had smuggled Dalmane into Peter Farquhar's food or drink that night, he would have restricted himself to a therapeutic dose."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Kang noted the influence of South Korean dramas smuggled in on USB drives, finding them "so refreshing and more credible than North Korea state propaganda".

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Once inside, she distributed the food, but also smuggled in notes and messages.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Homeland Security Investigations agents typically focused on transnational criminal investigations such as drug smuggling and human trafficking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

I have personal experience of anti–drug smuggling efforts in the Caribbean.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Mahmoud Ali Youssouf also stressed the urgent need to "address the root causes of irregular migration, combat migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons, and promote safe, orderly and regular migration".

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The officers have since thwarted roughly 400 master carton smuggling attempts, involving nearly 6,000 pre-labeled shipments of peptides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He's grateful to Michah for smuggling us, but it's still hard for him to push away the image of Michah and me together.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper


Vocabulary lists containing smuggle

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com