Used in a Sentence

confiscated

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for confiscated.

Editorial note

Just because the state hasn't confiscated all land yet doesn't mean this shouldn't be a concern and a type of things to come.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

taken without permission or consent especially by public authority

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of confiscated gathered in one view.

adjective

taken without permission or consent especially by public authority

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for confiscated.

Example sentences

1

Just because the state hasn't confiscated all land yet doesn't mean this shouldn't be a concern and a type of things to come.

2

What if the device is confiscated by police?

3

If your phone is confiscated before you even open the text, you're guilty of possession of child porn.

4

Per Wikipedia and the current BLS inflation statistics, that was $51.40 billion in 2015 dollars confiscated from the American people.

5

Pose a threat to them, and find your property confiscated and very likely facing criminal charges.

6

The US not only confiscated large amounts of intellectual property, they also extracted a significant number of highly qualified academics (e.g.

7

One of the core problems is that reporters might have their phones confiscated or destroyed, or the reporters might even be killed.

8

Why hasn't Zuckerberg's house been raided yet, and all Facebook servers confiscated?

9

Unfortunately, this leaves the reporter vulnerable to having their device confiscated/destroyed.

10

There should be a kind of profit sharing, a civil forfeiture law, with prisons when moneys earned through and during illicit activities are confiscated from the top.

11

When I was in high school (circa 1998), the administration would suspend students caught in possession of cell phones, and their phones would be confiscated.

12

Go to Russia to find out some of those other options, or any other place where people don't count on their wealth not to be confiscated at an unpredictable moment.

Quote examples

1

"Surveillance", if you count confiscated video footage from the crime scenes, may have been used to identify, but not to track.

2

Rather than work hard only to see most of his earnings confiscated, he'd make just a few movies and then enjoy those profits instead of spending time on diminishing returns." Is that what happened?

3

"Do not pursue what is illusionary - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night." - Soljenitsyn.

4

As someone who is closely involved with "gun culture", I'm aware of only a handful of cases where automatic weapons were confiscated in the US - and of no cases they were used in a murder in my adult lifetime.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use confiscated in a sentence?

Just because the state hasn't confiscated all land yet doesn't mean this shouldn't be a concern and a type of things to come.

What does confiscated mean?

taken without permission or consent especially by public authority

What part of speech is confiscated?

confiscated is commonly used as adjective.