How to Use graffito in a Sentence

graffito

noun

• One graffito struck him in the heart.
  — Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
• Streets were left littered with graffiti on walls and debris.
  — chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• The café’s façade is an inviting jumble of pink neon signs and glowing graffiti.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• In the meantime, a city crew went to the Messinas’ home to wash the graffiti away.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 23 Feb. 2018
• The doors to the club have been locked, windows are boarded up and sporadic works of graffiti appear.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Vandals also wrote graffiti in chalk on the sidewalk and poured chocolate syrup on the front doorstep.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2017
• But in any case Lajsic said, the city will get the offending graffiti off.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
• It was covered in paint, decked out in murals and graffiti doodles and designs.
  — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• Occasional graffiti or a weedy bush break the monotony of such barren shores.
  — Dustin Renwick, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• The contrast of the urban (think graffiti) with the placid (think canal tour boats) is one of the distinct charms of the walk.
  — Melissa Liebling-Goldberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2018
• There are extensive wood carvings and marker graffiti all over the place.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2018
• When my clients saw it — with family names, phone numbers and drawings all over the walls like graffiti — they were sold.
  — Kathleen Hackett, House Beautiful, 18 Jan. 2017
• Bring your own chairs, blankets and picnic gear and join an event that this year features vendors, graffiti artists and more.
  — Marcia Manna, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
• Drive through the city and see visions of the past, present and possible future in murals and graffiti tags.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Someone already has been inside the library and scribbled graffiti above shelves still lined with books.
  — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 26 May 2017
• My favorite piece was a poster of a brick wall with graffiti that denigrates women through quotes from famous men through the ages.
  — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 14 Sep. 2017
• Across the bone-dry hills are hundreds of examples of rock graffiti—black stones laid out to form names, dates and other details.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• State felony charges of graffiti, which are pending, were initially brought against the three when they were arrested last month.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 11 July 2018
• Other trucks use baking soda to blast off graffiti from brick or stone and paint to cover up markings on metal and wood.
  — Leonor Vivanco, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2017
• Now only the overgrown ruin of a swimming pool and a hut covered with graffiti remain.
  — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 22 June 2017
• But photos of the graffiti were already being texted, emailed and Snapchatted.
  — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 9 July 2019
• The idea is for groups of people to use the space, by appointment, to learn how to create graffiti and then to go ahead and paint the night (or day) away.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• Some time after crews left for the weekend, an unknown person or persons entered the home and used white paint to put graffiti on the walls.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2017
• During the same month last year, the city handled only 14 graffiti removal requests in that area.
  — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• In another scene, McCall is cleaning graffiti off of a brick wall.
  — Kevin Slane, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
• In addition, two white men came to her store and knocked books and other items to the floor, and then her store windows were vandalized by racist graffiti.
  — Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 10 July 2018
• The inmates broke toilets, sinks and windows and also burned trash and left graffiti messages, according to the email.
  — Craig Harris, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
• Storm had signed graffiti on a wall in Colorado Springs that asked whether police wanted to know where Beth’s body was buried.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2019
• Beaton had to leave Vogue for a spell after inserting a piece of anti-Semitic graffito in one of his drawings.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2018
• The swastika is the latest example of racist graffiti found at Needham High in recent years.
  — Sofia Saric, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019