Example Sentences

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“You’re not going to earn our votes if you bring somebody who we feel traffics in language that is harmful to us,” he said.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

Consign Design traffics in luxury labels like Brunello, Prada, Gucci and Hermès, along with top-drawer skiwear, while Capelet Consign brims with AG, Theory, Veronica Beard and Ulla Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

He’s a young Tokyo laundry plant worker who in his downtime traffics in resold goods at exorbitant markups, with little care for their authenticity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

“For a show that traffics in pop, that collective energy and that collective effervescence felt like something we could capture like lightning in a bottle.”

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

She grows old, and weak-headed, and she traffics over-much with sorceries.'

From On the Makaloa Mat by London, Jack