Sample Sentences forconfiscate (editor-reviewed)
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The teacher confiscated her phone after she kept texting during class.confiscated = took away
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Security confiscated the pocketknife at the airport checkpoint.
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The police confiscated the stolen goods during the raid.
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They'll confiscate any communication or recording devices he's got on him. (source)confiscate = take away regardless of consent -- especially by public authority
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There was no need to imprison them: the Arabs simply confiscated their horses. (source)confiscated = took (regardless of consent)
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She didn't know yet whether Mr. Partridge was the type to confiscate a phone.† (source)
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The police also confiscated all valuables and any money they found.† (source)
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Confiscate their property, take everything, turn out their families, strip them.† (source)
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The academy's reputation as a good school would not suffer by this action of confiscation as much as that reputation would suffer from "criminal charges."† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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They evicted Jews from their apartments and moved in, confiscating their belongings.† (source)
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To clothe the migrants, he circumvents Mexican Customs, which inspects cars and confiscates used clothing coming into the country, in what Padre Leo believes is an attempt to protect Mexican clothing manufacturers.† (source)
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The confiscators were often deputies sworn in hastily during the turbulent days right after Pearl Harbor, and these men seemed to be acting out the general panic, seeing sinister possibilities in the most ordinary household items: flashlights, kitchen knives, cameras, lanterns, toy swords.† (source)
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It was as much injured by its charges in fitting out an armament against the Spaniards, during the time of the Armada, as by the fines and confiscations levied on it by Elizabeth for harbouring of priests, obstinate recusancy, and popish misdoings.† (source)
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The announcement that the shop was confiscated.† (source)
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And you need to confiscate this kid's cell.† (source)
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My grandfather—I remember this—was happy to hear of Okubo Toshimichi's assassination, the man who had been responsible for the confiscation of his master's castle and the destruction of his master's army.† (source)
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