How to Use confiscate in a Sentence

confiscate

verb

• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024