contraband

How To Use contraband In A Sentence

• Francisco L. Rojas, a shipowner, contrabandist, and merchant, was not so fortunate. The Philippine Islands
• All bags will be scanned by X-ray machines for contraband goods. Times, Sunday Times
• I have heard and read that such things as coriander is considered contraband and that Israel will not confirm or deny if an item would be considered contraband. The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
• A comparison of Colombian tobacco imports with US tobacco exports reveals just how many contraband cigarettes were being shipped southward from the United States.
• The ship and cargo are taken into a port of the captor; the contraband is condemned in a prize court, but the fate of the ship itself varies. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
• The international cocaine trade re-emerged in Colombia in the 1970s, courtesy of a mafia which cut its teeth on contraband whiskey, marijuana and luxury goods.
• The organizers of the ships were offered to bring their assertedly humanitarian cargo into an Israeli port (Ashdod), and after inspection for contraband, everything else would be transshipped toGaza. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
• The modern coastguardmen never expect to find such an animal as a smuggler: all contraband business is done by dint of craft and not by daring. The Romance of the Coast
• The emphasis on cheesiness in Coeur de Lion and on the 'bad bad' in Minnis seem to me to be wanting to mobilise our ideas of the 'poorly written', the 'formalistic', the 'faux-edgy' as these things themselves are sort of the contraband property of poetry and literature in this time and place. David's comment
• Lucian's family had a history of smuggling and trading contraband items when taxes got too high for people's tolerance.