Sentence examples for confiscated beforehand from inspiring English sources

Often, at preview screenings, viewers have their cell phones confiscated beforehand, to prevent piracy, but when I saw "Cloverfield" we were allowed to keep them with us.

The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, said the raids ensured that items could be confiscated and that alerting dealers beforehand might send the objects underground.

TWENTY years ago, your correspondent was in the basement of what had until a few days beforehand been the KGB building in Vilnius, inspecting a pile of confiscated fire-arms and the cells in which countless Lithuanians had been jailed, tortured and killed.

Businesses confiscated.

It must be confiscated.

Their cellphones were confiscated.

They showed confiscated motorcycles.

Some hoops were confiscated.

Weapons were confiscated.

Where they confiscated?

(The guards confiscated his earnings).