"got confiscated" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe something being taken away or seized by an authority or figure of power. Example: During the security check at the airport, my bottle of water got confiscated because it exceeded the liquid limit.
In case his phone got confiscated, he broadcast his footage online, in real time.
"Imagine you're the person standing in line at the airport behind an insane fashion PR, who's screaming at a customs agent because the coconut shell bikini Steven Klein is supposed to shoot the next day just got confiscated by Fish and Wildlife.
Our cigarettes got confiscated for the entire four hour ride, which sucked.
Everything got confiscated but we replaced it and all the kids thought, "This is the coolest place on earth".
And then it gets confiscated".
"A lot of the ingredients, if they were sent over, they'd get confiscated," he says.
He is not worried they will be detained, but is concerned their footage might get confiscated and said he realised they may need to tread carefully.
As a result, no new private investment wants to get near Greece because it will be the first to get confiscated in the event of trouble a prospect made all the more likely by the official sector's reluctance to take losses the first time around.
There were the insurance policies on loads of cocaine that some of the Colombian cartels have offered, or the fact that when a load gets confiscated by authorities, traffickers will try to find a newspaper clipping about the bust, or even ask the authorities for a receipt, to prove that they didn't steal the drugs themselves.
Almost everything that was sent to us from America would get confiscated, so my dad started sending us packs of Juicy Fruit gum.
These might get confiscated.
