9 sentences with 'smuggled'
Example sentences and phrases with the word smuggled and other words derived from it.
• « In a letter surreptitiously smuggled out of prison, Arne Treholt is said to have mentioned banquets at the Soviet embassy at which international and Norwegian politics were discussed. »
• « Silkworms were smuggled out of China in about 550, at which point Constantinople became the heart of the European silk industry, an imperial monopoly that generated enormous wealth. »
• « This figure is lower than the actual total, as approximately 20% of the slaves transported were on undocumented journeys (i.e., smuggled and technically "illegal" from the point of view of the slave-trading states). »
• « The Plantation Duties Act taxed enumerated goods exported from one colony to another, a measure aimed primarily at New Englanders, who transported large quantities of molasses from the West Indies, including molasses smuggled from the French-owned islands, to be made into rum. »
• « Under this act, customs officials were empowered with warrants known as "writs of assistance" to board and search vessels suspected of containing smuggled goods. »
• « However, because the British did not enforce the 1733 law, New England sailors routinely smuggled these items from the French and Dutch West Indies at a lower price than they could buy in the English islands. »
• « It granted "writs of assistance" - basically search warrants - to customs commissioners who suspected the presence of smuggled goods, which also opened the door to a new level of bribery and deception on the shores of colonial America. »
• « Protest leaders and their followers continued to avoid British tea, drinking smuggled Dutch tea as a sign of patriotism. »
• « Even with the Townshend tax, the act would allow the East India Company to sell its tea at lower prices than smuggled Dutch tea, thereby reducing the smuggling trade. »