How to Use tagger in a Sentence
tagger
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My tagger was a philosopher with a can of turquoisespray paint.
—Karina Bland, azcentral, 13 Feb. 2020
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About a decade later, the city was still going after taggers.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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Taggers use a spear to shoot a dart-like transmitter the size of a pinky next to a shark’s dorsal fin.
—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
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Her office gave out tough penalties to graffiti taggers, drug dealers and those who weren’t paying child support.
—Josiah Bates, Time, 2 July 2019
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Ayton’s rim gravity pulls Jackson, the tagger, in from the corner.
—Shane Young, Forbes, 22 June 2021
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Even before the death of George Floyd and the wave of nationwide protests that followed, a tagger struck the city's stakepark.
—al, 7 June 2020
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Police are not sure who this tagger is but are tracking his spray painting via GARI.
—Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
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Like the name suggests, players must design a tagger and a runner, and the objective of the game is to tag the other player to win.
—Washington Post, 5 May 2021
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This allows the tagger to notify the tag-ee that the tweet contains something that might interest them or, indeed, is about them.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2018
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As the luxury building sat vacant, taggers armed with spray paint flocked there, hoping to leave a colorful mark on the city skyline.
—Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
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The lettering is blue and orange in the cartoonish printing that taggers often favor.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2024
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The amateur taggers must work fast despite their inexperience; the goal is for each fish to spend no more than six minutes out of the water.
—Brian Owens, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2023
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Chilli’s father is played by Brian Dennehy, which also happens to be the name of one of the real-life taggers.
—Rob McKittrick, New York Times, 14 June 2018
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There were the taggers, who represented people defying the status quo.
—Colette Gaiter, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
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As protesters scuffled with the tagger and his crew, one of the crew broke the window, according to Anthony.
—Quinn Norton, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2011
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Those amounts don’t include $200 each tagger must contribute to the Spray and Pay rewards fund.
—David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
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Despite much of the graffiti being painted over and windows being boarded up, the space has already seen the return of taggers.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
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Weeks later, taggers drew hate symbols and language on buildings in Little Village.
—Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
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Standing at the bow was veteran sea turtle tagger Scott Benson, holding a large hoop with an equally large net attached to it.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
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The taggers at Oceanwide Plaza transformed this urban albatross with color and pattern.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
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The towers, the site of several arrests and paragliding attempts, have vexed public officials who have tried to stop taggers from adding their own touches to the structures.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
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Hundreds of taggers were involved in the Los Angeles graffiti bombing.
—Colette Gaiter, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
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Davila Ross and her colleagues also noticed that, like kids, the gorillas would reverse roles, so sometimes the first hitter would be the tagger, and vice versa.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2010
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The traditional targets of taggers — walls, windows, street signs, lampposts, buses — remain their canvases.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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As for Renner, well … by design his character is the odd man out, a superhumanly gifted tagger not above commando tactics.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
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Waters also had taggers scrawl words of geopolitical protest on the show’s inflatable pig, and a graffiti artist painted the soundman’s Rat insignia on one of its feet.
—Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
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And there was the municipal government, which regularly cleaned graffiti from outdoor surfaces and tried to arrest taggers.
—Colette Gaiter, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
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Graffiti has come a long way since the 1970s when fly-by-night taggers sprayed their work on bridge abutments or subway cars then slipped away before the authorities arrived.
—Alan Feuer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
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Taggers sprayed graffiti on the highest reaches of the building and shattered windows line the exterior, providing easy access for trespassers.
—Plain Dealer Staff, cleveland.com, 7 July 2017
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Another mansion on Sunset Boulevard was overtaken by taggers who destroyed the home and covered the walls and windows with graffiti.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
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