Example Sentences

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North Korea’s pre-Covid economy had increasingly centered on black markets selling goods smuggled from China or under-the-table local goods—and with it the rise of a “donju” merchant class who made their wealth outside state control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

A 2017 report by Kenya's National Crime Research Centre blamed exam stress and long school terms and said students in different schools were communicating via smuggled phones, leading to copycat acts.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Diversity was not smuggled into this agency by ideologues.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

Two months before that, authorities arrested a man after concluding he had smuggled six birds in his boots and six more in his car — two of them dead.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

As they unrolled the leather ground cover to sit at the side of the road, they found a package with a generous supply of rice balls, most likely smuggled in by Sifen or Old Sai.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin