How to Use confiscate in a Sentence

confiscate

verb
Definition of confiscatenext
Synonyms for confiscatenext
  • The teacher confiscated all cell phones for the duration of the field trip.
  • Guards confiscated knives and other weapons from the prisoners.
  • The city began to confiscate the weapons the same day, Chaffin said.
    — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The gun was then confiscated and the woman was cited on a weapons charge.
    — C Mandler, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Last year, police confiscated more than 100 guns in the area, Spencer said.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2024
  • PoS, on the other hand, threatens to confiscate funds from bad actors.
    — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Nabi Saleh, her village, had been the site of weekly protests since Jewish settlers confiscated some of the land in 2009.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Some observers took photos, which the police did their best to confiscate.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The officers then confiscated copies of the book, detained and frisked customers, and put out a warrant for the store owner, who was jailed the next day.
    — Joy Lanzendorfer, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • They’re not allowed on airplanes and TSA will confiscate them.
    — Alisha McDarris, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Police confiscated four cellphones after a drug bust in the spring of 2022.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The person may be arrested and have the gun confiscated.
    — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Through the first three quarters of this year, 6% more fentanyl has been confiscated than the previous 12 months.
    — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Roads and businesses had to be closed, one person was shot and more than 70 firearms were confiscated.
    — Lawrence Specker | , al, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But Schultz noted that some knives slipped through the net, and were only confiscated because of tips from students.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • But Wong didn’t have that option: His passport had been confiscated by the police.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Once there, Davis told Brewer to pull out a card from his wallet, which police had confiscated.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The sergeant also confiscated the sign for good measure.
    — Nick Sibilla, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The Ukrainian chief prosecutor’s office last week asked Ankara to detain the Zhibek Zholy and confiscate its cargo of about 7,000 tons of grain.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 July 2022
  • The city confiscated their household garbage bin and parked a leaky construction dumpster in front of their gate, inviting neighbors to drop their trash.
    — Judith Sudilovsky, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The West could also begin the legal process to confiscate the more than $300 billion in Russian reserves that were frozen by sanctions when the war began.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Years ago, when kids built little ramps at the side of a ski run, ski patrollers would demolish them with shovels and threaten to confiscate the kids’ lift tickets.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Your lovely large bottles of liquids might have to be confiscated.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Sacramento had confiscated her home, left her without a shelter and forced her to plead for her own family photos, all of which were on the cusp of being thrown in the trash.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Chris, stunned, suspected that Manning was just looking for an excuse to confiscate his phone.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Jihan didn’t have a phone—guards confiscate them during raids—and her tent lacked electricity.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The images were not distributed, and have been confiscated by police.
    — Gawon Bae, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some type of powder, tools, a computer, mobile phone and tablet were also confiscated from the suspect.
    — Junko Ogura, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The rural population shared equally bad experiences of the Reds and the Whites, as both sides in the war confiscated the peasants’ livestock and grain.
    — Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • On his show, Jones speculated that the government allowed the massacre to happen to push anti-hate laws and confiscate guns.
    — Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022

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