impounded in English
vehicles parked where they cause an obstruction will be impounded
Use "impounded" in a sentence
1. The vehicle was impounded by customs.
2. The shipment was impounded and formally seized last November.
3. The police impounded cars and other personal property belonging to the drug dealers.
4. The Lewis River is impounded by three dams for hydroelectric power generation.
5. The ship was impounded under the terms of the UN trade embargo.
6. However, Bioscience warns: “The impounded water frequently covers valuable, agriculturally productive, alluvial bottomland.
7. Synonyms for Cooped include confined, caged, corralled, detained, enclosed, impounded, imprisoned, incarcerated, interned and kept
8. The tidal lagoon would provide alternative feeding grounds for birds displaced from the bay by the impounded lake.
9. The Doctor clambered petulantly to his feet, with the thunderous expression of a child whose toys have been impounded.
10. The early morning sun reflects on the impounded waters, which seem to stretch as far as the eye can see.
11. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main distinction between these habitats and water impounded by leaf Axils is the presence of secreted plant fluids …
12. Originating in the lush Ponderosa pine forests of Central Oregon’s Ochoco Mountains, the Crooked River flows through diverse landscapes before descending through a desert gorge to its impounded confluence with the Deschutes River at Lake Billy Chinook