16 example sentences using contraband.
Contraband used in a sentence
Contraband in a sentence as a noun
The whole team wanted shirts, so we loaded up -- we're going to wear that blue contraband with pride.
I was amazed, until he told me he was calling from a contraband cell phone.
The contraband was hidden behind marble slabs and fiberglass.
There's absolutely not reason to keep an *** pocket supple and sized for contraband.
If there's a K9 unit around it's even easier; look at how often they just happen to trigger when there's no contraband at all [2].
The GAO regularly audits the TSA by trying to get firearms and other contraband through security.
There are CBP searches that protect border integrity and search for contraband, and then there are ICE checkpoints that aim to catch illegal immigrants.
?If one wished to bring digital contraband into the US, why oh tell me why would anyone ever bring it physically over the border on a machine?!
Contraband in a sentence as an adjective
It clearly makes no sense to punish distributors of the original message just because the encoded message is contraband.
Someone thought it was a good idea to leave me to re-pack my luggage unsupervised in a room full of contraband with no additional security checks.
In the 21st century, the most dangerous contraband is often contained in laptop computers or other electronic devices, not on paper.
If someone's sufficiently willing to flaunt laws as to operate a site devoted to selling contraband, what stops them from taking advantage of their position of power and stealing from their users?
This lead to people who had acquired essentially free bitcoins getting paid actual money by folks who wanted to buy very-much-not-free contraband, which helped provide a bit of kindling for the speculative bonfire.
Specifically, the Court says officers should have the ability to look for guns and contraband when someone is pulled over and it's likely they are armed or their immediate person or vicinity poses a threat and/or has evidence of a crime.
My take-away is this:"What this means, is that from the comfort of their desks, law enforcement agencies or copyright trolls can upload contraband files to Dropbox, watch the amount of bandwidth consumed, and then obtain a court order if the amount of data transferred is smaller than the size of the file.
Here we have a group of objectivist libertarians who believe that there should be effectively no laws other than the law of economics and self-interest who run an illegal website devoted to the pure greed of cashing in on contraband, and this is what they write:"I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message.
Contraband definitions
goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
See also: bootleg black black-market smuggled