Example sentences for: confiscated

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

  • 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.

  • Specifically, it wants $90,000 for a confiscated file of telegrams and letters sent in response to Nixon's famous "Silent Majority" speech.

  • Arafat pointed out that his police had arrested numerous terrorist suspects and confiscated weapons.

  • It was well-known, for example, that if a Saudi traveled to Afghanistan via Pakistan, then on his return to Saudi Arabia his passport, bearing a Pakistani stamp, would be confiscated.

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


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