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

The smuggler had attempted to get others to post the animals on his behalf but was identified by government investigators and the New South Wales police, it added.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

"All migrants have to pay a smuggler," says Hermine Gbedo of the anti-trafficking network Stella Polare.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 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

She and Lourdes spent days washing clothes along the Usumacinta River in exchange for food, asking every smuggler who went by if he would take them through the mountain pass.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario