How to Use vandal in a Sentence

vandal

noun

• Vandals defaced the school's walls.
• But the vandals, thought to be two males, had already fled the scene.
  — Fox News, 20 June 2019
• The ordeal is not the first time the church has been the target of thieves or vandals, Shank said.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The statue has been the target of vandals on Columbus Day in the past.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• The vandals also have shot out the windows of three homes.
  — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 May 2017
• These are the cheap seats hecklers and the direct-mail vandals.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 July 2017
• In fact, the project had been mostly abandoned by the time the vandals destroyed the models in the spring of 1871.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
• The vandal didn't stop at defacing the hood and both sides of her car in black paint.
  — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
• The vandal then makes his escape, filmed by the driver's-side camera.
  — Mihir Maddireddy, Car and Driver, 26 Feb. 2020
• Pressure for the city to act has built since 2015, when vandals spray-painted over the street signs.
  — Patricia Mazzei and Alexandria Bordas, miamiherald, 29 June 2017
• The vandal climbed a fence to gain access to the monument, the spokesperson said.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 14 June 2024
• Part of the structure’s west wall was burned by trespassers or vandals.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 12 June 2018
• The Penny Lane street sign is replaced about once a week, Gareth said, thanks to vandals.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• In 2015, one vandal destroyed it by yanking it apart with a chain pulled by a truck.
  — Michael Armstrong, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2020
• The vandal wore a mask and carried either a black purse or a small black bag over the shoulder, the report says.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• In other news, an art fair turns voting-law expert and an art vandal heads to the clink.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 May 2024
• But that could stiffen the resolve of others to outlast — if not combat — the vandals at the gates.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Feb. 2018
• The vandal likely did that by hitting it with a blunt object.
  — cleveland, 12 Apr. 2021
• In the decades since, the station saw heavy damage by metal strippers and vandals.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 18 Nov. 2019
• The vandals tore off the door, knocked off the copula and removed a little bell inside.
  — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 6 July 2018
• Vandals then lowered the flag and burned it on Veterans Day.
  — Salena Zito, Twin Cities, 15 June 2017
• The video also made its way to YouTube, where the community has been heckling the would-be vandals.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
• Francis is not a vandal within the church, as Ross suggests.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Apr. 2018
• Whole families died when the hooded vandals set fire to their homes.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• Hours before — and just a few blocks away from the event — vandals painted graffiti on The Bean and elsewhere.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2019
• The vandals brought cutting tools and mischief to their acts of vandalism.
  — Tyrone Beason / Columnist, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
• The memorial sign for Till has often been the target of vandals since it was first erected in 2008.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 26 July 2019
• In the latest trial, no witnesses were able to identify the vandals in the videos.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• As such, they are often targeted by thieves and vandals.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
• Sofia Bravo says her father installed it years ago to keep vandals out and history in.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024