Reminds me of the time I tried to 'smuggle' Marks & Spencers chocolate biscuits into Australia. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
And people used to kind of smuggle their records in and you know, so we had an inkling that that was going on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2003] Reference
It is wrapped like that because someone (on their request) was supposed to "smuggle" it to the US where no such sheep tail fat can be found. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Kloosterman: Fridge Voyeurism: a Sneaky Pleasure, and a Way to Green Your Fridge] Reference
Lewis saw that an author could "smuggle" truth into people's heads and hearts through fiction. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Prison officers 'smuggle' McDonald's Big Macs into Belmarsh. From Wordnik.com. [Mirror.co.uk - News] Reference
"smuggle" me aboard, and conceal me there till the ship got out to sea?. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Tar] Reference
Really they couldn't smuggle these things in that area …. From Wordnik.com. [Man in the Middle] Reference
Walker on why it is so easy to hide and smuggle nuclear material. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Kim: ReThink Interview: Lawrence Bender and Lucy Walker on Countdown to Zero and Nuclear Weapons] Reference
“You'll have to smuggle me some,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [Down Cellar] Reference
Write it the way you know it should be and smuggle it to Bill on the plane. From Wordnik.com. [Behind Enemy Lines] Reference
"As a state company we do not smuggle arms," said his counterpart at Norinco. From Wordnik.com. [A Sting For Beijing] Reference
How he had even managed to smuggle out one of the company's two VCR machines. From Wordnik.com. [Confessional] Reference
The officials expect China will try to smuggle the arms into Libya when the spotlight is off. From Wordnik.com. [Cuba's Mystery Missiles] Reference
Unlike nuclear bombs and deadly chemicals, biological weapons are easy to hide and easy to smuggle. From Wordnik.com. [What Can Iraq Do?] Reference
In December he had sent weapons out of Mogadishu to the countryside; now he began to smuggle them back. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Fiasco] Reference
He was arrested in a seedy Nairobi hotel, waiting for his compatriots to smuggle him out of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Hijackers We Let Escape] Reference
It's relatively easy to buy such guns legally in Texas and other border states and to smuggle them across. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Mexico's Guns] Reference
Most of those who help smuggle refugees out of China do so for religious, humanitarian and political reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Seoul Train] Reference
Lack of monitoring in prisons means inmates are able to smuggle in mobile phones, putting public safety at risk. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners access internet and order drugs on illicit phones, says report] Reference
It would have been even easier to rob -- or smuggle out -- a small vial of nasty germs to sell on the black market. From Wordnik.com. [In The Germ Labs] Reference
Many are paid with food and whatever gems they can smuggle out -- the mine owner is supposed to get the whole take. From Wordnik.com. [THE DARK SIDE: DEAD FOR DOLLARS] Reference
Kindle could end an era when visiting foreigners have to smuggle samizdat books in and out of authoritarian countries. From Wordnik.com. [High-Tech Diplomacy] Reference
And with her extensive connections in the literary world, she had opportunity to smuggle the plays to theater companies. From Wordnik.com. [WAS THE BARD A WOMAN?] Reference
Worried by political prisoners 'ability to smuggle out their writings, Moscow officials decided to isolate them as much as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Gulag] Reference
Meanwhile, villagers hide their chickens, trying to smuggle them out of town or simply devouring them before the authorities arrive. From Wordnik.com. [A Costly Disease] Reference
Last year, for example, nine customs officers were arrested for allegedly helping smuggle stolen cars and electronic goods into China. From Wordnik.com. [Corruption] Reference
True, terrorists may be more likely to try to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States in a suitcase than launch one by missile. From Wordnik.com. [A Shot In The Dark] Reference
Filmmaker/Activist/Blogger Lara Lee filmed on board the Mavi Marmara during the raid, and managed to smuggle out sixty minutes of footage. From Wordnik.com. [Yermi Brenner: Israeli Military Fighting for the Narrative, Online] Reference
They enlisted the help of prisoners who worked in a munitions plant -- most of them women -- to smuggle out gunpowder, a few grams at a time. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Auschwitz] Reference
Smilin 'Al was the hail-fellow-well-met guy, the man who would later smuggle a 6-iron onto Apollo 14 in 1971 and become the first man to play golf in space. From Wordnik.com. ['Al Just Left Us All Behind'] Reference
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