Example sentences for: expropriated

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

  • Anyone really prosperous and hard-working in this country now has almost half their money expropriated by the state.

  • The villas of the pre-revolutionary rich, expropriated by the state, have now been divided into apartments or turned into offices.

  • When Bin Ladin left in 1996, it appears that the Sudanese government expropriated all his assets: he left Sudan with practically nothing.

  • A comprehensive nationalization program followed, and the government expropriated factories, utilities, and more land.

  • Like the Boquería, the Hotel Oriente, and other Rambla landmarks, this square came into being as a result of the destruction of a convent, when church properties were expropriated in an anti-clerical period in the mid-19th century.


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