confiscate

Example Sentences

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Police confiscated five cars and 42 mobile phones during the operation and froze 125 accounts at 16 banks.

From Barron's

Figures obtained by the BBC show more than 57 million doses of unauthorised medication have been confiscated in the UK by government agencies in the last five years.

From BBC

The school may use the dashboard to identify rule-breakers in the future, but for now, teachers and staff are simply confiscating phones on sight, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Following the natural disaster, local law enforcement was assigned the task of confiscating guns, many of which officers say were stolen or found in abandoned homes.

From Salon

Billions of dollars' worth of assets have been confiscated by the Russian state since 2022, including those belonging to Western firms like French dairy group Danone and German energy firm Uniper.

From Barron's