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Example sentences for "smuggle"

Lexicographically close words:
smudge; smudged; smudges; smudgy; smug; smuggled; smuggler; smugglers; smuggles; smuggling
  1. I'll get my coat and be ready in a jiffey," he said, "and maybe we can smuggle you into the house and no one the wiser.

  2. I can smuggle him here, if you want to talk to him.

  3. But if persons could smuggle slaves out of our colonies, they could smuggle slaves into them; but particularly when the planters might think it to their interest to assist them.

  4. Smuggle the Gig Mr. Ballantyne describes the game as played in his young days at Biggar as follows:--Two boys would each select his own side.

  5. Then one side, determined by a toss, goes out and smuggles the gig and cries out, "Smuggle the gig.

  6. I must smuggle you out of this room and out of this house like seizable goods; and how am I to set about it with a sentinel planted at your very door?

  7. It was proposed to smuggle me forth into the garden, or to conceal my form under a horsehair sofa which stood against the wall.

  8. For the present, black terror haunts him: O brave Barbaroux wilt thou not smuggle me to Marseilles, 'disguised as a jockey?

  9. So that the official persons have to smuggle forth the short-weighing Baker by back doors, and even send 'to all the Districts' for more force.

  10. I bear in my pocket a letter from her to him of so private a nature that she would not trust it to a flag, because then it must be read, which Lord Clowes brought to me with the request that I would in some way smuggle it to him.

  11. First a visit was paid to the stable, to smuggle the shirts from the criticism of Mrs. Meredith, as well as to entice Clarion's companionship for the walk.

  12. Jim proposed that we should smuggle ourselves on board some shore-boat, but to this I would not agree.

  13. If we had got nothing else it would have been well, but the crew managed to smuggle on board a quantity of new rum, the effects of which were soon visible.

  14. The Outs, before leaving the den, shuffle the Gegg, or smuggle it so between each other that the Ins do not know which person has it.

  15. He need have no fears, however, for no one would ever take the trouble to smuggle anything into Embiez.

  16. It was a desperate step, even for him, to smuggle you into a carriage, and to tap you on the head to keep you still.

  17. The wrappings were off at last, and he fingered the shining little toy lovingly, wondering if after all he dare not smuggle it into the portmanteau and take it home with him.

  18. In view of the strict regulations governing the departure of British subjects from British ports, it was obviously a matter of almost impossibility to smuggle three young Teutons on board a ship lying in port.

  19. Well, then," suggested some one, "did you ever smuggle opium?

  20. The main difficulty arose from the tendency again to smuggle in statements favourable to infallibility, and paving the way for its definition by a sidewind.

  21. He reasoned that insomuch as he was bound to smuggle and lie, it might be well to plan something artistically.

  22. Here's Jones, for instance; he would have tried to smuggle in that rug.

  23. Smuggle me in something to read," I said, as he left with profuse apologies for his hurry.

  24. Robin, with remarkable skill, had contrived to smuggle in various forbidden bottles, which contributed greatly to our popularity.

  25. He asked questions about the way in which the mother intended to smuggle the literature into the factory, and she marveled at his clear knowledge of all the details.

  26. Speak to her; see if you can't get her to smuggle in our wares.

  27. But how did you manage to smuggle this on board, Farrell?

  28. I don't blame you for that, but it wont do to smuggle too much.

  29. He's going to help me smuggle Ogden away to that friend of his I told you about who keeps the dog-hospital: and the friend is going to keep him until he reforms.

  30. It's a pity somebody doesn't smuggle him away now and keep him till he's a better boy.

  31. Heaven knows how long it would take you by earth; and there's no one here, anyhow, to help smuggle you away if I go and leave you behind.

  32. An old friend of ours is going to take the parcel back with her when she sails to-morrow; smuggle it, maybe, but that's not my business.

  33. As long as people can get opium, they will smuggle it.

  34. If he has money, they will get it from him if they can; and if he has friends outside, especially if they themselves be drug or liquor addicts, they will attempt to smuggle to him what he craves.

  35. He said afterward that he thought I had suddenly developed a propensity for shoplifting, and had been discovered, and that he would have to smuggle me out of the city.

  36. I gave them my address, fully determined to get back to the hotel and smuggle Edgar off before the next morning, before the "trifle" could be asked for.

  37. So far so good, then; it only remains for us to smuggle the captain, the missionary, and the crew of the Nelson on board.

  38. All that were in Havre, your honor; I commissioned Bill Stubbs to pick them up, and he managed to smuggle them all on board.

  39. They would send their flour, pork, rice, and lumber to St. Marys in Georgia and smuggle it over the river to Florida, or take it to the islands near Eastport in Maine and then smuggle it into New Brunswick.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smuggle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.