How to Use graffiti in a Sentence

graffiti

1 of 2 noun

• The walls of the old building are covered with graffiti.
• The graffiti on the garage doors is from Juan Velazquez.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2020
• Most of the graffiti on the Yosemite Falls Trail were 3 feet by 3 feet, though some were as large as 8 feet by 8 feet.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
• Train graffiti seems to have improved over the years, too.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2021
• In the night, someone had scrawled black graffiti on the pale yellow wall.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2022
• The store planned to hire a cleaning company to erase the graffiti.
  — cleveland, 18 Mar. 2021
• There’s no graffiti on the walls, none outside the building.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• Its windows had been smashed and graffiti artists had tagged the inside.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• The graffiti has since been cleaned by the city's parks and recreation department.
  — Steven Vargas, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
• The graffiti was sprayed on the bathroom walls, mirrors, showers and stalls.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 May 2022
• His graffiti, sprayed in fat letters, marks out of the way spots around Portland.
  — Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• Rather than labeled, each bottle is spray-painted in a homage to the city’s graffiti.
  — Malaika Ng Julia Berick Kate Guadagnino Jameson Montgomery Jinnie Lee Monica Mendal, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Over the years, people had taken to scrawling chalk graffiti on the hulls and cabins.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• The graffiti was cleaned off by the school’s facilities team, Samad said.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• With respect to the legends who came before him, those who brought the bars, the beat, the DJs, the graffiti, Eminem took this in-your-face art form to the next level.
  — Gray Rizzy, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022
• Sheets of plywood nailed over the windows and doors were spray-painted with MS-13 graffiti.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
• The next day, Rittenhouse and Black cleaned graffiti in the protest zone, then offered to help guard what remained of Car Source.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• The floors and walls at Zwirner remain themselves, even after they’ve been marked up with his thin graffiti of green and white.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Photos posted to the Pinedas’ Facebook account show the racist graffiti and what appears to be bleach stains on their grass.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• There is graffiti on the back dating back from the 18th and 19th centuries, believed to be the work of local schoolboys and visitors.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• Similar graffiti was found along the same trail in August.
  — Ashraf Khalil, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2022
• The service department was asked to remove the graffiti.
  — cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• Street artists and graffiti artists showed up to the fancy restaurant district in Beverly Hills where Ruiz worked.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2021
• Among other things, the museum workers will figure out how to protect the graffiti scratched and Sharpied into the bus’s skin.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2021
• Both were inspired by the culture of California punk graffiti from the ‘80s.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2023
• By the time his first customer arrived to pick up her food, Nguyen, bucket and sponge in hand, was just beginning to scrub the graffiti on the patio tables.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
• In my last semester of college, two Swiss graffiti artists stayed in my living room.
  — Hazlitt, 5 Oct. 2022
• Most of them are very brief graffiti: the name of an individual and his father or a petition to a god.
  — Lauren Keith, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
• Revok, Futura and Rime (to name a few) have defended their ownership of their graffiti and art in court.
  — Tyson Mitman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• The artist’s large-scale paintings are mounted on metal gates, barbed wire looping above them, and pull from Pre-Columbian myths and L.A. scenes, including auto-body shops and eye-popping graffiti.
  — The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024

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graffiti

2 of 2 verb

• The new tagline was graffitied on one of the walls, and hip young guests were plied with Moscow Mules and Armani Exchange popcorn.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 12 Oct. 2017
• Students graffiti the walls, cheat on homework, and text too much in class.
  — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 15 June 2019
• Black and red spray paint was used to graffiti the church sign and several sides of the church and storehouse, according to Brown.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 July 2019
• The teen-age sisters Halle and Chloe Bailey, whose has 13.3 million views, walked in black minidresses and red graffitied booties.
  — Christina Binkley, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• The bowl came graffitied in caramel and chocolate syrup that alerted the senses that good things would happen in your belly thereafter.
  — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 23 June 2017
• Also on display is a photo of a wall graffitied up by Andrew Witten, who went by Zephyr.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
• When a giant portrait of a fierce-looking owl, the emblem of Athens since ancient times, was itself graffitied, it was quickly cleaned up.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• During the current fiscal year, which ends this week, the city doubled the number of full-time employees devoted to graffiti efforts from five to 10.
  — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
• Since then, poor twelve-foot bronze Harry has been guillotined, graffitied, painted, bombed, and toppled, according to the current anti-American gripe of the day.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 June 2019
• My current paralysis seemed to have begun with a three-word question graffitied all over my neighborhood.
  — Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Vandals used pink and white spray paint to graffiti a string of vehicles, buildings and businesses over the weekend, according to the Boise Police Department.
  — Christina Lords, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
• For this show, a mirrored floor and graffitied ceiling thrilled and disoriented, and the pulsing impulses of each piece as well as the distance traveled from the first to the last gave me both a visceral and intellectual jolt.
  — Jordan Roth, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2019
• From trippy rainbow stripes to graffiti-style embellishments, there's a lot happening with knitwear right now that pushes the envelope.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 26 Aug. 2017
• But rather than go the traditional route of weighty heritage and spectacular yet static stones, the house has placed its mascot, Wladimir the cat, center stage (in a dedicated app, Vendorama) and tapped the artist Noé to graffiti the entryway.
  — Vogue, 11 Jan. 2018
• Police began investigating after a church parishioner reported finding the door kicked in and graffiti on three buildings.
  — Dan Corey, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2017
• The new tagline was graffitied on one of the walls, and hip young guests were plied with Moscow Mules and Armani Exchange popcorn.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 12 Oct. 2017
• Students graffiti the walls, cheat on homework, and text too much in class.
  — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 15 June 2019
• Black and red spray paint was used to graffiti the church sign and several sides of the church and storehouse, according to Brown.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 July 2019
• The teen-age sisters Halle and Chloe Bailey, whose has 13.3 million views, walked in black minidresses and red graffitied booties.
  — Christina Binkley, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• The bowl came graffitied in caramel and chocolate syrup that alerted the senses that good things would happen in your belly thereafter.
  — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 23 June 2017
• Also on display is a photo of a wall graffitied up by Andrew Witten, who went by Zephyr.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
• When a giant portrait of a fierce-looking owl, the emblem of Athens since ancient times, was itself graffitied, it was quickly cleaned up.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• During the current fiscal year, which ends this week, the city doubled the number of full-time employees devoted to graffiti efforts from five to 10.
  — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
• Since then, poor twelve-foot bronze Harry has been guillotined, graffitied, painted, bombed, and toppled, according to the current anti-American gripe of the day.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 June 2019
• My current paralysis seemed to have begun with a three-word question graffitied all over my neighborhood.
  — Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Vandals used pink and white spray paint to graffiti a string of vehicles, buildings and businesses over the weekend, according to the Boise Police Department.
  — Christina Lords, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
• For this show, a mirrored floor and graffitied ceiling thrilled and disoriented, and the pulsing impulses of each piece as well as the distance traveled from the first to the last gave me both a visceral and intellectual jolt.
  — Jordan Roth, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2019
• From trippy rainbow stripes to graffiti-style embellishments, there's a lot happening with knitwear right now that pushes the envelope.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 26 Aug. 2017
• But rather than go the traditional route of weighty heritage and spectacular yet static stones, the house has placed its mascot, Wladimir the cat, center stage (in a dedicated app, Vendorama) and tapped the artist Noé to graffiti the entryway.
  — Vogue, 11 Jan. 2018
• Police began investigating after a church parishioner reported finding the door kicked in and graffiti on three buildings.
  — Dan Corey, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2017

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