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Example sentences for "contraband trade"

  • A druggist in middle Alabama determined to carry on a contraband trade in cotton and drugs.

  • Negroes were given "free papers" in order that they might go in and out of the lines of the armies on contraband trade.

  • Twenty-seven richly laden English boats were taken at Sacramento,--significant of the profits which the English merchants were making in contraband trade, using Sacramento as a base.

  • A further accusation against foreigners was that they engaged in contraband trade.

  • The settlement of the Windward and Leeward Islands and the conquest of Jamaica had given a new impetus to contraband trade.

  • Footnote 34: There seems to have been a contraband trade carried on at Cadiz itself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contraband trade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced state; contraband goods; contraband trade; converse with; despite their; discovered the; express themselves; great sacrifice; hunting shirt; inch howitzers; induce them; members were; neighbouring hill; perfect harmony; pulverized sugar; railroad from; regained consciousness; steps were; suppose she; true happiness; would fall; would resign; you hear