Confiscate example sentences

It therefore instructed its agents posted in the princely states to confiscate all opium and destroy the crops.Bolsheviks used confiscated land to demonstrate what collective work could be.Speculation had to be stopped and supplies confiscated.After he arrived in Canton in the spring of 1839, Lin arrested 1, 600 men involved in the trade, and confiscated 11,000 pounds of opium.In 1937, of two huts I had, one was sold and one was confiscated'.The land and property of Muslims was confiscated on a large scale and they were treated with suspicion and hostility.'A commune was set up using two [confiscated] farms as a base.