How to Use narco in a Sentence

narco

noun

• Then the Opium Wars were fought to preserve the right to have narco sales, leading to the conquest of Hong Kong.
  — Abhishyant Kidangoor/ Hong Kong, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
• But in recent years, officials have noticed that some of the women in the narco world now control the money.
  — Malcolm Beith, Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2017
• Viral footage showed soldiers and narcos chatting amiably in the streets.
  — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2019
• With the proliferation of drugs has come a new narco culture.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The problem has gotten so bad that in 2016, Colorado began partnering with the Mexican Consulate to bust the narcos.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2018
• But law enforcement agents still need to keep hacking at the tentacles of cartel finances that stretch through the United States, where the blood wealth of narcos could be right before your eyes.
  — Ioan Grillo, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• The video for the two singles starts with Cano dropping bars (backed by a more electronic-leaning sound) in the studio from the perspective of a narco with a penchant for diamonds and luxury.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
• His eldest son, Eddie Escobedo Jr., has since taken over a chain of hibachi restaurants that his father opened after serving time in prison and vowing to quit the narco life.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• Alfredo told Zune, insinuating that she might even be involved with the narcos.
  — Rachel Nolan, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Most of the album’s songs narrate rags-to-riches stories with lyrics inspired by narco culture, the style of storytelling that has defined corridos bélicos.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
• The Harley-riding Rev. Timothy Riordan must decide whether to break the sanctity of confession to inform on narcos.
  — Simon Akam, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• The team used 15 metrics, including the size and speed of the deforestation, to build a model that could distinguish patches of narco-deforestation from other types of forest loss.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, Science | AAAS, 16 June 2017
• Selena Gomez is a welcome surprise, shedding any remaining hints of her Disney Channel origins in her portrayal of a hard-loving wife of a narco.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2024
• A lot of the coverage of narco issues in general has been dominated by male writers and macho narratives.
  — Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• There is no swimming pool, none of the ostentation that characterizes other narco properties in Sinaloa.
  — AndrÉs Villarreal, Chron, 14 Sep. 2021
• Some new arrivals have no idea what’s going on at the border, but all are primed at the academy for narco warfare, with lurid PowerPoints of people killed by Mexican cartels: heads in an ice chest, bodies stacked in a cattle truck.
  — Lawrence Downes, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Toward the end of the millennium, a southside narco named George Herbert became the undisputed king of Belize’s underworld, hooking up cartels with corrupt politicians to ship coke north.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2022
• Strange, fetishistic details like those, the kind that baffled and obsessed Bolaño’s fictional reporters in 2666, indicate a different species of violence from narco killings.
  — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Diego Enrique Osorno, himself a valiant Mexican reporter who has also covered Mexico’s narco wars, e-mailed me to express his despair.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 May 2017
• This corruption had global effects with Hezbollah establishing a presence in Venezuela and entering the gold, oil, narco and other markets that benefit the Maduro heirarchy.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• The Waesche alone interdicted seven narco-boats during its latest mission, capturing about $266 million worth of drugs, according to the cutter’s commander, Capt.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2017
• Herrera’s novels, however, while using elements of the tradition, buckle against the narco label.
  — Cora Currier, New Republic, 28 June 2017
• More effective and less expensive measures exist to combat the narcos, from better anti-money-laundering rules to legalizing drugs and thus tackling the dealers’ lifeblood.
  — Roberto Saviano, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2017
• A few days after that, an American aid worker was kidnapped and taken to Mali, and a notorious Toubou narco-trafficker was assassinated in public.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• The jury reached its decision after hearing testimony from a half-dozen seasoned narco-traffickers.
  — Nate Schweber, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Tibú is a remote town in the rural Catatumbo region, where guerrilla groups and narco-trafficking organizations are known to control large areas of the territory.
  — Stefano Pozzebon and Ana Victoria Cucalón, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
• Mendoza uses Mendieta’s investigation as a chance to take us through Culiacan, visiting a strip club, the home of a car dealer with a homicidal daughter, and Humaya Gardens cemetery, where dozens of narcos are buried in gaudy mausoleums.
  — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017
• The Justice Department announces narco-terrorism and other criminal charges against Maduro and senior leaders from his government.
  — CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
• How did a small town Canadian boy allegedly become a narco kingpin?
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
• Such vessels are called narco submarines, semi-submersible craft used to ship narcotics across sea waters.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026