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
• 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
• On her end, Alexandra arranged to smuggle herself and her son out of the palace in two coffins that were to be loaded onto the ship.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• He is accused of smuggling people and causing the shipwreck.
  — Karam Shoumali, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• Israel has launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to assault key facilities and kill top generals.
  — Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025