How to Use vandalize in a Sentence

vandalize

verb

• Our car was vandalized in the parking lot.
• The crime is not the first time the historic landmark has been vandalized.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• It has not been stolen or vandalized in the way that Williams alleges his sign was.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2023
• Two years ago, an obelisk erected in 1874 to mark the spot where Cook was killed, on Kealakekua Bay, was vandalized.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Later that week, a mob of people vandalized and lit one of its cars on fire.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• The witness told the outlet the Waymo was vandalized and set on fire by a big group of people.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• The night before school, the home is vandalized and a front window is shattered.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• Mobs have set fire to over 350 churches and vandalized over a dozen temples.
  — Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2023
• The night before, St. John’s had been vandalized with graffiti, and a fire had burned the basement.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 2 June 2020
• There was a great clarity to their message to go out and vandalize.
  — Hazlitt, 5 Oct. 2022
• The spectator no longer bothers to vandalize the glass doors of the cinema.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• This is the fourth time this year someone has vandalized the iconic Colosseum, the AP noted.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2023
• Not only was Smokey Bear missing, the agency said the sign had also been vandalized.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
• Hundreds left the Justice Center and vandalized dozens of stores.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 31 May 2020
• Swipers have been known to vandalize MetroCard machines so that the machines are unable to accept cash.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• But it has been severely vandalized, and is now surrounded by a chain-link fence.
  — Sam Lubell, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• TikTok has been in the news a lot lately with some crazy challenges, urging users to scale a stack of milk crates and not break any bones, or to slap their teacher or to vandalize schools.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2021
• Then came last week, when the president egged on a hostile mob that proceeded to invade and vandalize the Capitol.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Then, when the Afghanistan Olympic committee’s headquarters were vandalized, Popal was among those blamed.
  — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Schultz said no migrants were present at the camp off Interstate 8, situated near Valley of the Moon, when the group vandalized the shelter.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
• If someone tries to vandalize the mural again, a power wash would remove the graffiti.
  — Dallas News, 14 July 2021
• Memorials to foreign soldiers who fought in World War II have been vandalized.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• Thornley has said Gionet did not engage in violence and told others not to break or vandalize anything, but rather left the building when he was told to go.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
• Worn, weathered and vandalized, missing an arm and the discus itself, it was quietly removed in 1970 and put in storage, and was not missed by many.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Then in the wake of a horrific strike on a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds, several branches of the chain were vandalized in Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
• But since then, Byrd’s grave has been repeatedly vandalized, including when two White teenagers wrote racial slurs and knocked over the tombstone.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• Thornley has said his client did not engage in violence and told others not to break or vandalize anything.
  — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2022
• Instead, the city posted signs warning people to stay back — signs that were soon vandalized, damaged or removed.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• The trend, which is also being seen in schools across the U.S., encourages students to vandalize and steal school property, from boxes of face masks to soap dispensers.
  — Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
• As anger grew, social media posts directed crowds to loot and vandalize stores downtown.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024