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Example sentences for "bootlegging"

Lexicographically close words:
bootlace; bootlaces; bootleg; bootlegger; bootleggers; bootless; bootlesse; bootmaker; bootmakers; boots
  1. There are gambling and bootlegging going on in this camp to-night, aren't there?

  2. Neither is the trade of bootlegging a decent one, or one that provides decent amusement.

  3. You wouldn't think it to look at him, but he surely has thrown a monkey wrench into as pretty a bootlegging machine as there is in the country.

  4. The middle-aged man, the one with the large acquaintance among belated drunkards, seemingly had little interest when the conversation turned from bootlegging to the silver screen.

  5. It made us fear that perhaps some of his bootlegging yarns had been colored with the ready fiction of his business.

  6. It was then that McCorquodale had learned of an expedition that was being planned by the bootlegging gang the railroad was anxious to locate, and got concrete evidence that Weiler was the Eastern agent of the whisky runners.

  7. To be sure, he charged them off heavily, so there was little cash left from the half-breed's bootlegging operations.

  8. It was just that this man had lied to me, after I had done all his bootlegging work.

  9. Lowell's last shot about the bootlegging had gone home.

  10. Talpers had profited most by the bootlegging operations carried on by the pair, though Jim had done most of the dangerous work.

  11. The reservation agriculturist had been along and had shown him just how the trick could be done, but Bill Talpers's bootlegging schemes looked a lot better then!

  12. But he'd been trailing McFann for bootlegging and was pretty sure Jim was riding a horse with a broken shoe.

  13. If McFann is mixed up in anything, from bootlegging to bigger crimes, he is only a tool.

  14. I've done all this bootlegging work for you, and I covered up for you in court, about this murder, all because I thought you was on the square.

  15. I'm sure he's been getting supplies from the man who has been using him in bootlegging operations.

  16. Jim McFann isn't a bad fellow at heart, but this bootlegging and trailing around with Bill Talpers will get him in trouble yet," replied the agent.

  17. She had been driven desperate by the threats of Cochise to take Elsie as his squaw; and the partnership of her father in the illicit making and bootlegging of moonshine whiskey had prevented her from appealing to the law for protection.

  18. The realization that Slade was even more of a criminal than the moonshining and bootlegging had indicated, quickened Lennon's compassion for the girl.

  19. Before midnight he was in touch with a chemist of his acquaintance who served as laboratory sharp and chief mixer for a bootlegging combine specializing in synthetic goods with bogus labels on them.

  20. Bootlegging is easier than murder ain't it, Boyle?

  21. In view of the to do about prohibition and bootlegging in this country, it would be swell to have a feature story about bootlegging in Canada.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bootlegging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    gambling; prostitution; racket; rackets; syndicate; usury