How to Use graffito in a Sentence

graffito

noun
Definition of graffitonext
  • In the meantime, a city crew went to the Messinas’ home to wash the graffiti away.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 23 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • A man had graffiti painted on his van while it was parked at Ridge Park Square June 17.
    — Mark Holan/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
  • The Block-by-Block street team is scrubbing downtown St. Paul clean of graffiti.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 17 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • But in any case Lajsic said, the city will get the offending graffiti off.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Vandals also wrote graffiti in chalk on the sidewalk and poured chocolate syrup on the front doorstep.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The café’s façade is an inviting jumble of pink neon signs and glowing graffiti.
    — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Two large spates of graffiti have taken place this year, with one happening on Sept. 4 and 5.
    — Deborah Kadin, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Streets were left littered with graffiti on walls and debris.
    — chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • O'Donohue said the first call police received about the graffiti came just before 6 a.m. Sunday.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2017
  • It was covered in paint, decked out in murals and graffiti doodles and designs.
    — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
  • But photos of the graffiti were already being texted, emailed and Snapchatted.
    — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 9 July 2019
  • Occasional graffiti or a weedy bush break the monotony of such barren shores.
    — Dustin Renwick, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
  • During the same month last year, the city handled only 14 graffiti removal requests in that area.
    — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Fans have noted that not only is Taylor’s birth year written in graffiti here, 1991 refers to the birth year of none other than her boyf Joe.
    — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 27 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • At that time, in the early 1980s, litter drifted through the park’s meadows, benches were falling apart and graffiti defaced the rocks.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • His Facebook page even featured gang graffiti and signs.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Venice, Barcelona and Amsterdam are among the cities that have seen anti-tourism protests and graffiti aimed at visitors and tour ships.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 8 Aug. 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
  • The image has since reappeared in promotion for the title, even as the slogan has started to appear in graffiti in Hong Kong.
    — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2019
  • There are extensive wood carvings and marker graffiti all over the place.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2018

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