smuggle
verb (used with object)
to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
has smuggled
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present perfectof smuggle (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Yet Smith has smuggled in another story, one that had been hiding inside it all along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Treasury said the Guard has smuggled “hundreds of millions of dollars” worth of sanctioned oil into the international market.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
“The Patch” is billed as a “covert memoir,” but McPhee has smuggled excerpts from his life into most of his books.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2018
With a small group of accomplices, Mr. Dakhi by his own account has smuggled about 600 people to safety away from the Islamic State.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2015
“That my father, Sir Risdon Graeme, has smuggled goods here?”
From Cutlass and Cudgel by Schonberg, J.
