smuggle
verb (used with object)
to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
is smuggling
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present progressiveof smuggle (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“Bristol. And the girl wants to change sex and the mother is sending troops out without preparation and the colonel is smuggling fuel. I really don’t think they’re going to allow us to do that.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2020
No, weird is smuggling a dead octopus into a hockey game so you can lob it onto the ice at an agreed-upon time.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 27, 2011
Then who is smuggling all those notes into Rosemary's piano?
From Time Magazine Archive
In a story by the late Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, the driver of a tanker truck is smuggling Palestinians across the desert to illicit jobs in the Persian Gulf.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has a notion someone is smuggling things into the house without paying the duty, and he got me to detect at you for him.
From The Cheerful Smugglers by May Wilson Preston
