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

Cambodian monks chanted blessings and scattered flowers Friday over 74 cultural artefacts returned to the country after being plundered by a notorious British antiques smuggler.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

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

They had heard of a U.S. employer who, having lost so many workers to immigration raids, was offering to pay a smuggler to bring people across the border.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

He was a knight now, no longer a smuggler, and he had never been an assassin.

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