How to Use black market in a Sentence

black market

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  • They unloaded the stolen goods on the black market.
  • The black market in prescription drugs is thriving.
  • On the black market, one dollar can be sold for as many as 33 pounds.
    — Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
  • From there, the products are sold off, sometimes fenced on the black market.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Our state was losing out to our neighbors and the black market.
    — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Even your call records can be accessed, we’ve been told, on the black market.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Few think a couple of arrests in the state will put much of a dent in the black market for bourbon.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Critics said the ban could lead to what is essentially a black market for the drugs.
    — Georgy Birger, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Some have even grown desperate enough to sell their organs on the black market.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 8 May 2022
  • Those wishing to secure their own flour or semolina must resort to the marché noir – the black market.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Both Paxlovid and Molnupiravir are being sold for as much as eight times the market price on the black market.
    — Time, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The cartels then package the fentanyl into other drugs like Xanax and Adderrall, and ship them to the U.S. to be sold on the black market.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • There was diversion of methadone into the black market.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Catalytic converters can cost more than $1,000 each on the black market, the DOJ said.
    — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Right, and actually the delays have meant that in the meantime, the cannabis black market has been thriving.
    — Curbed, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Also, a slew of small arms from Libya penetrated the black market in the 2010s, experts say.
    — Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Korte guessed that the burglars had been paid for the heist and then passed on the jewels to a broker who belonged to the underground black market.
    — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The discovery of the black market dispensary in 2019 wasn’t unusual in a city plagued with them.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Jewelry, cash and precious metals stolen from homes have been sold on the black market.
    — The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The rise of the US dollar black market The demand for dollars is highest among importers.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • French bulldogs, which can fetch a high price on the black market, have been targeted in a string of L.A.-area robberies in recent years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Gas stations have also shuttered, and the few who can afford to pay $9 a gallon -- more than twice the usual rate -- have flocked to the black market.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The black market in art and artifacts — which is really a big, big business — is just a small part of the story.
    — Ilaria Ravarino, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • Mifepristone has never been approved for use in Brazil, and women, unaware of the drug, do not seek it on the black market.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2022
  • As that black market persists, the states aren’t getting the economic benefit of that.
    — Katherine Sayre, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • Those passes were rare, but were so popular in years past that a black market for the card opened up, with passes selling on Ebay for up to $499.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Due to their distinctive gold and black shells and rarity, the tortoises are highly-prized in the black market trade.
    — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2022
  • As a result, the black market is often flooded with substances that mimic safer psychedelics.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The central bank says its reserves have improved and the black market no longer controls the foreign currency trade.
    — Krishan Francis, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Andrei is convinced that Russia will win the war in a year or so, prices will fall and Apple products will find their way to Russia via the black market.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 5 June 2022

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