How to Use graffiti in a Sentence

graffiti

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
• Mace also posted video of a man scrubbing and power-washing off the graffiti.
  — Meg Kinnard, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
• Those reporting graffiti and trash to 311 should see better results thanks to Shine On SF.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024