Example Sentences

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For every dollar of effort you put in, the system confiscates 70 to 100 cents,” he says.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

When capos are arrested, the government confiscates whatever land is in their name and holds it in a byzantine bureaucracy.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

The FBI comes back and confiscates the original devices, but not before Isaac made a copy of the hard drive.

From Fox News • Oct. 15, 2020

The only excitement in this over comes when a steward confiscates a giant inflatable watermelon, only for Jofra Archer to nick it off him and return it to the crowd, who chant “Arise Sir Jofra”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2019

The captain, however, has been watching, and when the parrot flaps off very self-satisfied, he confiscates my pencil and pad.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman