How to Use smuggle in a Sentence

smuggle

verb

• The paintings had been smuggled out of the country before the war.
• We smuggled his favorite sandwich past the nurse.
• He was arrested for smuggling drugs into the country.
• They smuggled immigrants across the border.
• They were smashed up and came to me and asked me to smuggle out some tapes.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Nansen managed to smuggle out of the camp page by page.
  — courant.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• To smuggle the dope gift past the guards, the man stuffed the weed—wrapped in a rubber balloon—up his nose.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2019
• The students had smuggled beer on board and didn’t sleep much.
  — Palko Karasz, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
• In 2021, beer geeks in Texas might not have to smuggle Yuengling Lager across state lines.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
• When the lawyers tried to seize the studio’s assets, Chaplin smuggled the film to a safe place.
  — Katherine Yamada, Glendale News-Press, 5 Sep. 2019
• Gotta love Rachel trying to smuggle rice out of the challenge, though.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2024
• Why, from your point of view, is smuggling itself not the problem?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
• Marcos said he’s been smuggling migrants for six years and won’t stop — at least in the short term.
  — Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
• Xie had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to smuggle goods from the U.S. in May.
  — al, 7 Sep. 2021
• In this mix, smuggled refugees are far from being choice-less or the weak party.
  — Milena Belloni, Quartz Africa, 27 July 2019
• First, the parts were smuggled into the country and the drones were assembled.
  — Harry Law, Time, 5 June 2025
• Some mines are run by warlords who work with rogue members of the Congolese army to smuggle the coltan out.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
• More frequently, they are smuggled live for the pet trade.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
• The two suspects, if found guilty, face up to five years in jail and $7,000 in fines for attempting to smuggle wildlife.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• The prisoners who snapped them took great risks to steal and smuggle cameras, and to hide the rolls of film after they were shot.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
• The red-ear slider turtle and blue towel it was smuggled in.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
• Some Hong Kongers are now taking great risks to flee the city, even choosing to try to smuggle themselves out by sea.
  — Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Vanesse Chan, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
• Last Wednesday, a court in Bali sentenced two Thais to 16-year jail terms for smuggling 2.2 pounds of methamphetamine.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
• The three swords that were attempted to be smuggled into the US arrived from Russia and the axe head from Ukraine, the agency said.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 12 Mar. 2023
• Karla Lopez-Owens was smuggled across the United States border as a child.
  — Justice Amick, Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2019
• Much of this contraband had been smuggled in by drones that drop off items in prison yards, often overnight.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• In desperation, Baskerville led a group of fighters to slip past the blockade and smuggle in food.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
• China has been in the news as the major consumer of pangolin which is smuggled in mostly from Africa.
  — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 13 Feb. 2020
• The series is inspired by Williamson’s father, who was a fisherman and began smuggling drugs in the 1980s to make ends meet.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 June 2025
• That lifelong partnership was born aboard a cruise ship in 1959; Fischbacher was a steward and a part-time magician on the Bremen, while Roy Horn, an animal lover who would later smuggle a cheetah on board for a magic act, worked as a bellboy.
  — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 20 June 2025