Get to know Bootlegging better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like selling or merchandising.
Bootlegging in a sentence
Related words
Bootlegging meaning
- Engaging in economic production or distribution in an illegal way.
- The activity of making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor.
Synonyms of Bootlegging
Using Bootlegging
- The main meaning on this page is: Engaging in economic production or distribution in an illegal way. | The activity of making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor. | Engaging in economic production or distribution in an illegal way.
- Useful related words include: selling, merchandising, marketing.
- In the example corpus, bootlegging often appears in combinations such as: bootlegging and.
Context around Bootlegging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bootlegging
- In this selection, "bootlegging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, illegal, software, facing, joints, charges and becomes stand out and add context to how "bootlegging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alcohol regulation bootlegging becomes a and are facing bootlegging charges after. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bootlegging" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bootlegging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
With Bethel voting to enter local option alcohol regulation, bootlegging becomes a felony. (13 words)
He was known for bootlegging and armed robbery and once kidnapped an oil tycoon. (14 words)
House formed a liaison with Knight, and both musicians profited from association with her bootlegging activities. (16 words)
A Girl Named Sooner: Family matinee on March 25 at 2 p.m. A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who has been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple. (48 words)
Green Party councillor Seán Hartigan – who has obviously read his fair share of Ian Fleming novels – was looking for a license to stamp out illegal bootlegging of their monthly live performances. (31 words)
We naturally and immediately took full advantage of their unlucky predicament by mastering the intertwining arts of bootlegging and rum-running, with many a local fortune being made as a result. (31 words)
Example sentences (12)
Green Party councillor Seán Hartigan – who has obviously read his fair share of Ian Fleming novels – was looking for a license to stamp out illegal bootlegging of their monthly live performances.
He was known for bootlegging and armed robbery and once kidnapped an oil tycoon.
In the mid-1990s, the Wah Ching was reported as being engaged in murder, extortion, drug trafficking and gambling, and expanded into software bootlegging.
Several weeks after the 1924 story, that wryly suggested stolen automobiles and bootlegging joints hidden in the weeds, a “weed gang” was formed.
Newton capped the drive with his second rushing touchdown of the afternoon, faking a handoff to Rex Burkhead before bootlegging around the right end for an 11-yard score.
Three people are facing bootlegging charges after allegedly bringing alcohol into La Loche, Sask., where alcohol sales are currently banned.
We naturally and immediately took full advantage of their unlucky predicament by mastering the intertwining arts of bootlegging and rum-running, with many a local fortune being made as a result.
With Bethel voting to enter local option alcohol regulation, bootlegging becomes a felony.
A Girl Named Sooner: Family matinee on March 25 at 2 p.m. A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who has been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.
House formed a liaison with Knight, and both musicians profited from association with her bootlegging activities.
However, to prevent bootlegging the user is unable to record any video that is played on the DVD Player or purchased content from iTunes, thus being greyed out.
Moran and Capone had been vying for control of the lucrative Chicago bootlegging trade, and Bugs Moran had been moving in on several of Capone's enterprises.
Common combinations with bootlegging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: