Sentence examples for to confiscating from inspiring English sources
verb
To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
- In schools it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
In addition to confiscating drugs and alcohol and electronics, they ransacked the chapel and broke apart the tabernacle.
In addition to confiscating uniforms and equipment, the police issued stern warnings to shop owners, telling them that if they were caught again, they would face arrest.
In addition to confiscating disposable razors, scissors and Swiss Army knives, security officials at airports have been taking eyebrow tweezers, cuticle clippers and metal nail files.
The Israeli army has taken to confiscating them from villagers in the strip of southern Lebanon it occupies, for fear that Hizbullah guerrillas will use them to track troop movements.
"The N.R.A. has understood that," Mr. Aborn said, and thus we have its endless drumbeat saying that even modest changes in the gun laws will put America on the road to confiscating every last firearm.
Reporting from inside Snapchat's annual New Year's Eve parties, Gallagher recounts how the company went from requesting "no photos" to confiscating people's phones.
He had pulled cell phone confiscation duty, not that there were many phones to confiscate.
It later threatened to confiscate them.
The Americans were going to confiscate the pirates' equipment.
They saw them continuing to confiscate territory and increase settlements.
At one point they managed to confiscate an old shotgun.
