How to Use deface in a Sentence

deface

verb

• The building was defaced with graffiti.
• He was fined for defacing public property.
• Black spray paint was used to deface the sculpture and cover text on the pedestal.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 25 June 2021
• Somebody has the right to destroy it, deface it, and tear it down?
  — Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 28 Aug. 2020
• No one will make an attempt to deface a sign this evening.
  — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2022
• Outside the Hunter campus, a poster of the hostages being held in Gaza was defaced with swastikas.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
• The Forward statue in front of the Capitol was defaced with red paint.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2020
• And often food, rather than paint, has been used to deface the cases holding the art.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• By Dec. 5, the face has been defaced, and now wears the round, black eyes and pointy eyebrows of an early cartoon.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2003
• Some have gone so far as to deface paintings and tear down murals and signs.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, baltimoresun.com, 2 Aug. 2020
• Friday's attack is not the first time the picture has been defaced.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
• Back in 2016, before Trump was elected, the star was defaced by a vandal who scratched off his name and a TV icon.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• The BBC reports that some of the area’s ancient cave paintings and rock art have been defaced by vandals.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2017
• The serial number on one of the guns had been defaced, police said.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Members of Hitler’s party defaced the entrances to Jewish shops and then rallied in the town square.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
• One in ten voters defaced their ballots or left them blank.
  — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
• Monuments to the slain children in Newtown have been stolen and defaced.
  — Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Within 24 hours it had been defaced, with her skin painted over in pink and the anti-hate message erased.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024
• The damage consisted of words written on the putting greens and were defaced by the unknown substance.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2017
• There are still no answers as to who or why someone defaced Austin Horsley’s car with words such as f----t.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• A banner in the 800 block of Oak Street was defaced with red and black markers, it was reported on July 7.
  — Brian L. Cox, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2017
• Paintings on the walls depict the Buddhas before they were defaced.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Most of the places were defaced with the number and letter combination 508 MOF.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
• Though Napoleon’s troops were accused of defacing the sphinx nothing of the kind ever occurred.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• At the standees in the back of the shop, Hanks indulged Kimmel in one of his longest-running bits, and defaced a Damon standee with a back tooth and black eye.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 14 June 2019
• The chapter said a sign at the Dr. Hani Awadallah public school in Paterson was defaced.
  — Samantha Beech, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
• Over the next few days, police learned Bell and Harris had defaced five other buildings in the French Quarter.
  — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Members of the crowd defaced the vehicle and threw a firecracker inside it, which set it on fire.
  — Jody Serrano / Gizmodo, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
• Some protesters say defacing beloved works of art is worth it for the cause of drawing attention to the climate crisis.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
• After all, across Bangladeshi society, statues of Sheikh Mujib have been toppled, posters of Hasina defaced and replaced by lurid graffiti decrying her as a dictator.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024