Sentence examples for were impounded from inspiring English sources
verb
To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
- His car got impounded after he'd parked illegally.
More than a million bottles of wine were impounded.
But the ballots were impounded when the university said it would appeal the decision.
The gloves were impounded after the fight by the New York State Athletic Commission.
Under a court order, the paper ballots were impounded, and counting cannot begin until Monday.
On Friday, his brightly decorated campaign buses were impounded by the police in the city of Gweru.
When they recently tried to truck copies of the paper into the country, these were impounded at the border.
According to unofficial figures some 350,000 logs were impounded on government premises and in the forests.
The police said that two cars were impounded, and that there were no arrests although criminal charges were possible.
In one afternoon, 19 boom cars, crammed with speakers blasting music at earsplitting volumes, were impounded in Washington Heights.
The expedition records, including 300 journals, 450 notebooks and 183 charts, were impounded or scattered, unpublished and unstudied, as forgotten as the expedition's commander.
The police raids left hundreds of Roma, including many children, homeless after caravans were impounded and no arrangements for temporary housing were made.
