If, as with the Jacobin State, it claims all offices, it empties the purse entirely; instituted for the conservation of property, it confiscates the whole of it.
The spoliation of the last of existing corporations must be effected: the government, confiscates the property of hospitals, communes, and all scientific or literary associations.
In several countries of Europe it is a received maxim, that whosoever confiscates the body, confiscates the goods also.
In more countries than one, the rigor of custom confiscates the property of a man who has voluntarily released himself from the miseries of this life, and his children are reduced to beggary because their father is dead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confiscates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
