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Example sentences for "smuggled"

Lexicographically close words:
smudged; smudges; smudgy; smug; smuggle; smuggler; smugglers; smuggles; smuggling; smugly
  1. Each one of us has experimented with college life, and I, as will be told later on in detail, smuggled myself into the Berlin University as a student of political economy, but there is not a diploma to-day among the four of us.

  2. Elena pretended to put the letter away for that purpose, but she really smuggled it down to the Major, who despatched it forthwith to the Chamber of Deputies.

  3. A good-natured warder came with his breakfast of bread and water, and a smuggled copy of a morning journal called the Perseveranza.

  4. Arms and supplies were smuggled into Cuba.

  5. Those who obeyed the law were ruined; violators of the law smuggled goods into Canada and Florida for shipment abroad.

  6. Cron and Hoges had worked together, and the latter had smuggled the genuine Rembrandt from the Gage Galleries just as she had suspected.

  7. But how was the picture smuggled from the museum?

  8. It was a very small painting--one which could be smuggled out under one's coat.

  9. Try one and see," cried the superintendent angrily, as he turned away, to stand looking on while every article that could by any possibility have been made to act as a vehicle to hide smuggled diamonds had been examined and replaced.

  10. It's my impression that he has smuggled a lot of diamonds, though we couldn't bring it home to him.

  11. Then you have no smuggled diamonds with you?

  12. Never mind; I daresay my luck will turn--fool as I was to try that dodge on about those two going off with the smuggled loot.

  13. Yes," said the superintendent; "but I'm not satisfied that this move does not mean that you have smuggled diamonds here with you to carry to where you can dispose of them.

  14. The officials took good care that no goods should be smuggled on board without a boleta.

  15. Noura had smuggled him into the Zaouïa, and she herself had trained him by giving him food that he liked, though his home was at Oued Tolga, the town.

  16. We were necessarily obliged to rely upon the master-at-arms, and the quartermasters, for examining all boats that came alongside, to see that no liquor was smuggled into the ship.

  17. You see, things are occasionally smuggled out in spite of an eternal vigilance on the part of the secret service.

  18. They have a strict law against taking objects of art out of their country, you know, and it's been nip and tuck getting hold of a lot of this stuff--smuggled of course.

  19. He says all the good art is in the Catholic countries, except what has been smuggled out of them.

  20. We have located the smuggled goods in the storeroom of the steward, four wooden cases of them.

  21. In some of those cases were the smuggled goods!

  22. If the man in chain armour had altogether deserted Box 18, he had made haste to disappear--a fact so disquieting that I regretted not having smuggled Teano into the hotel to help.

  23. They had come, he announced, by order, to search the garden for a suspected hiding hole of smuggled opium.

  24. She could easily have smuggled some dry bread up to him; but she did want him to have some of the hot Indian mush, which the family had.

  25. Ann went to look, indeed that was the way she smuggled the thief's dinner to him, but her report of nothing the matter with the grain did not satisfy Nabby.

  26. Typewriters have been smuggled into Turkey with perfect ease when packed in the middle of a box of hams.

  27. His friends smuggled her out to the ship, a missionary was pressed into service, and a wedding at sea took place.

  28. They must now be smuggled out of England; or, by the opinion of my lawyer, I am lost beyond remedy.

  29. We've had nothing else this week back; nothing but papers, and a closed door, and the very meals left there to be smuggled in when nobody was looking.

  30. He was referring to the Locri Faun, a wonderful antique which had recently been found on his property near the town of that name on the neighbouring mainland, and was about to be secretly smuggled out of Italy.

  31. Moreover, from the figures for 1885 a by no means negligable amount must be deducted for that which, though reckoned in the Swiss drink bill, was not consumed there but was smuggled to neighbouring countries.

  32. Formerly, as was said, Swiss spirits used to be smuggled into neighbouring countries; but now, owing to the rise in prices through the monopoly, drink from other countries is smuggled into Switzerland.

  33. We have here some gin, smuggled all the way from Holland, and have come to ask your opinion of it.

  34. Does the gin disagree with your stomach, or have you never seen a smuggled keg of spirits before, that you stare at it as if it were a keg of ghosts!

  35. No doubt the Chinese themselves have since then smuggled opium into their country, and are doing so still.

  36. The very existence of an opium-smuggling trade with China shows that the article smuggled was in very great demand in that country.

  37. What ingenuity, Ryder wondered fleetly, had smuggled in the carpenter for the contrivance, what jewels had gone to the bribing, what lies had been told!

  38. Aimée must be hidden until she could be smuggled to France--or until the French authorities could get out their protective documents.

  39. Some of these are sent to Swisserland; but, I believe, the greater part is smuggled into France, by virtue of counterfeit stamps, which are here used without any ceremony.

  40. By the bye, the tea smuggled on the coast of Sussex is most execrable stuff.

  41. Ten sailors were to be taken along, making twelve persons in all; but the number was increased to thirteen by a little midshipman, Joseph Israel, who smuggled himself into the Constitution's boat.

  42. Perhaps this superstition as to the supreme quality of things smuggled is not even yet wholly dead.


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