confiscate

Example Sentences

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School staff now confiscate homemade baked goods and suspicious candy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

At this point, the most responsible thing Attorney General Pam Bondi could do is confiscate the department’s television remotes and log everyone out of their social media accounts.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

Youssef framed the evening as an exercise in collective healing—an experiment in what happens when you confiscate phones, sprinkle in jokes about anxiety and war, and then dare an audience to choose hope anyway.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2025

The squads would confiscate her phone and read her text messages, she adds, to make sure she had not used any South Korean terms.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

She wants to find a reason to confiscate the phone, but there is none.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon