Example sentences for: confiscated

How can you use “confiscated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After she was taken away in handcuffs, says the Post today, authorities searched her apartment and confiscated notebooks, plus video and audio tapes.

  • The paper stays on the case with a front-page account of a Senate hearing Tuesday that disclosed corruption among IRS officials: one was thought to have stolen as many as twenty confiscated luxury vehicles and another wrote an anonymous threatening letter to a tax attorney who had testified against the agency at congressional hearings.

  • The paper reports that one was seized by airport security in Athens last week, and that others have been confiscated at airports in England and Australia.

  • Arlington National Cemetery, "the nation's most hallowed military burial ground ," was born in an act of theft: The U.S. government confiscated it in 1861 from Gen.

  • After 1941, citizens of Japanese origin were interned and had their property confiscated.


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