smuggle
verb (used with object)
to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
have been smuggling
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present perfect progressiveof smuggle.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Morales was also found to have been smuggling undocumented immigrants, and housing at least four of them at his ranch, since as early as November 2019, officials said.
From Fox News ● Mar. 17, 2022
The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Father,” she said, “do you think that Mr. Power could really have been smuggling things in that yacht?”
From The Red Hand of Ulster by Birmingham, George A.
