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How to use the word smuggled in a Sentence?

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Identifying close relatives indicates that poachers are likely going back to the same populations repeatedly -- year after year -- and tusks are then acquired and smuggled out of Central Africa on container ships by the same criminal network, this criminal strategy makes it much harder for authorities to track and seize these shipments because of the immense pressure they are under to move large volumes of containers quickly through ports.

Samuel Wasser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of people being smuggled, they are being trafficked at the same time, they just don’t know it until it’s too late, what I can tell you is the border being out of control like it is, we don't know how many potential trafficking victims we have coming in.

Mark Morgan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you increase the number of people being smuggled, the increase in trafficking goes along with that, so if they're really, really serious not just about addressing and reacting to trafficking, if they're really serious about trying to prevent it, they’d secure our borders.

Mark Morgan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Of the close to a thousand billion dollars made from oil since 2003, an estimated $ 150 billion of stolen money has been smuggled out of Iraq.

Barham Salih

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Meth seizures along the border increased 255-percent from over 8,400 kilograms in 2012 to 30,081 kilograms — that’s the weight of an average loaded cement truck — in 2017. ( U.S. Customs and Border Protection) We are seeing very large seizures of methamphetamine being smuggled across the border into the U.S..

Scott Stewart

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Nearly 80 [ percent ] of all known illegal narcotics coming into North America are smuggled by international cartels through the Eastern Pacific corridor, an area greater in size than the entire United States, the profits from cocaine allow drug cartels to diversify and fund other illicit trafficking activities including the smuggling of opioids, synthetics, methamphetamines, persons and weapons.

Coast Guard

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

These false allegations distract from the important work of finding solutions to a complex public health crisis by placing blame where it does not belong. Government data consistently makes clear that our nation's opioid crisis is growing rapidly because of illicit fentanyl and heroin smuggled in from China and Mexico, we strongly deny these allegations, which are inconsistent with the factual record, and will vigorously defend against them.

Clio Boele

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This petition was bravely smuggled from West Papua across the border into Papua New Guinea then to Europe.

Benny Wenda

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Many artifacts have been smuggled abroad.

Ahmad Hussein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The GST rate has increased the incentive to bring in smuggled gold. The government should reduce import duty and make smuggling unviable.

Aditya Pethe

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Nearly 700,000 cows and bulls ... will starve to death or will be smuggled to slaughter houses. We have to save them.

Laxmi Narayan Chandak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Being smuggled by traffickers is not what we wanted, but we've been seriously considering that alternative since last night.

Armando Quesada

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This, on top of the smuggled precursors, readily supplies meth production.

The DEA official

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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