How to Use graffiti in a Sentence

graffiti

1 of 2 noun
  • The walls of the old building are covered with graffiti.
  • Got rid of all of the graffiti.
    — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • The floors were clean, and the white walls were free of graffiti.
    — Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 Nov. 2025
  • He was revered in the graffiti world.
    — Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026
  • He was revered in the graffiti world.
    — Brittany Wallman, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • But last week, its white walls were covered in soot and graffiti.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
  • There was quite a bit of graffiti all throughout the top floors, too.
    — Rachelle Graham, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • The walls are covered in graffiti from past guests, which kids tend to love.
    — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • In the night, someone had scrawled black graffiti on the pale yellow wall.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Its windows had been smashed and graffiti artists had tagged the inside.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Last week, a mosque in the West Bank was torched and sprayed with graffiti.
    — Dana Karni, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Yosemite is hardly the only park that deals with graffiti.
    — Outside, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The graffiti has since been removed.
    — Tim Fang, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The store planned to hire a cleaning company to erase the graffiti.
    — cleveland, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The veritable graffiti was on the wall, but rap was still alive.
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • His graffiti, sprayed in fat letters, marks out of the way spots around Portland.
    — Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The graffiti has since been cleaned by the city's parks and recreation department.
    — Steven Vargas, USA TODAY, 6 July 2021
  • From graffiti to grandeur This man once tagged trains with graffiti.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The graffiti was sprayed on the bathroom walls, mirrors, showers and stalls.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 12 May 2022
  • By this point, people knew that galleries were showing graffiti art.
    — Paula Aceves, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2026
  • And looking at this area that was covered in ugly graffiti is such a welcome change.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Rebellion spread more through graffiti, chants, and songs than through top-down orders.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The home was also covered in graffiti.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The inscriptions are described as the graffiti of their time.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Ted Cruz painting over graffiti in Texas.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Over the years, people had taken to scrawling chalk graffiti on the hulls and cabins.
    — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Images and videos showed the white graffiti on a wooden structure on the freeway.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The walls are covered in graffiti from past guests, giving the place a fun, lived-in energy.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • The property was tagged with graffiti and trash often piled up along the sidewalk.
    — Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026

graffiti

2 of 2 verb
  • Students graffiti the walls, cheat on homework, and text too much in class.
    — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 15 June 2019
  • The bowl came graffitied in caramel and chocolate syrup that alerted the senses that good things would happen in your belly thereafter.
    — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 23 June 2017
  • Black and red spray paint was used to graffiti the church sign and several sides of the church and storehouse, according to Brown.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 July 2019
  • My current paralysis seemed to have begun with a three-word question graffitied all over my neighborhood.
    — Catherine Lacey, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Also on display is a photo of a wall graffitied up by Andrew Witten, who went by Zephyr.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The new tagline was graffitied on one of the walls, and hip young guests were plied with Moscow Mules and Armani Exchange popcorn.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 12 Oct. 2017
  • From trippy rainbow stripes to graffiti-style embellishments, there's a lot happening with knitwear right now that pushes the envelope.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 26 Aug. 2017
  • During the current fiscal year, which ends this week, the city doubled the number of full-time employees devoted to graffiti efforts from five to 10.
    — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
  • Police began investigating after a church parishioner reported finding the door kicked in and graffiti on three buildings.
    — Dan Corey, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Since then, poor twelve-foot bronze Harry has been guillotined, graffitied, painted, bombed, and toppled, according to the current anti-American gripe of the day.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • Vandals used pink and white spray paint to graffiti a string of vehicles, buildings and businesses over the weekend, according to the Boise Police Department.
    — Christina Lords, idahostatesman, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Fernandez was proposing to have graffiti-like murals on each of the six panels on the transportation center, with panels representing Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena.
    — Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But rather than go the traditional route of weighty heritage and spectacular yet static stones, the house has placed its mascot, Wladimir the cat, center stage (in a dedicated app, Vendorama) and tapped the artist Noé to graffiti the entryway.
    — Vogue, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Perhaps most notably, Amarillo is home to Cadillac Ranch, a public art installation featuring 10 Cadillacs buried in a field—uniquely, visitors are encouraged to graffiti the cars with spray paint.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2026

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