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
• Some have gone so far as to deface paintings and tear down murals and signs.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, baltimoresun.com, 2 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When the billboard was defaced, the volunteers were shaken up.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
• Moy reported one side of the street-facing sign att 1490 Broadway was defaced with black spray paint.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
• Why would someone climb 100 feet above a busy highway to deface an ad for a religious TV show?
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
• An Ann Arbor home was defaced with a racial slur Monday, police say.
  — Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2019
• That song plays when Joker and his goons deface an art museum.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• Still others to deface the tomb with graffiti or even human waste.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• But when intense Texas droughts set in, dead brown patches deface the Kelly green monochrome.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2019
• In October, the town’s library was defaced with a swastika.
  — Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
• Our signs and ones like them have been stolen, thrown in the river, replaced, shot, replaced again, shot again, defaced with acid and have had KKK spray painted on them.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 25 July 2019
• Colorado police are searching for the vandal who defaced a new sign outside of a Grand Junction mosque this week.
  — NBC News, 20 Sep. 2019
• Someone used white and red spray paint to deface a table, floor platform, a sliding board, a pole, two swings and other platforms.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
• Was just sent the video of this idiot defacing Montana statue after MNF game.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Go figure The right-wing religious nuts love seeing the libraries defaced.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024