How to Use swastika in a Sentence

swastika

noun
  • There are people who take a can and put a swastika on the wall.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Someone punched the man right in the swastika on his way out the door.
    — Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • Cowards daubed swastikas on her car and in the lift in her apartment block.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2017
  • To be on the field at orange high school, with a swastika on his calf.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 May 2022
  • One man, wearing a white shirt with swastikas drawn on, was punched and chased out of the area.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The phone is engraved with a swastika, as well as Hitler's name.
    — Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 3 Feb. 2017
  • On the cover, the inevitable swastika is flanked by two red stars.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • One of the symbols is a swastika, drawn on his forehead.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • Some did, but others left messages of hate, slurs and a swastika.
    — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 23 July 2021
  • On the sides of his white sports car, in stark black spray paint, was a clear drawing of a swastika.
    — Lux Butler, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2024
  • The site of swastikas only 20 years after the war was a fresh wound for many.
    — Kelly Hushin, Town & Country, 17 Apr. 2017
  • As the man struggled to breathe, the swastika tattooed on his chest rose and fell with each gasp.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The top floor of the garage had a giant swastika on Friday night.
    — Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Above that one was a blunt swastika, so crude looking that someone thought it had been done as a brand.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The swastika dates back thousands of years and is a religious icon.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
  • Neo-Nazi posters and swastikas have appeared around campus in recent years.
    — Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, a group of teenagers vandalized a historic black schoolhouse with swastikas and hate speech.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The sheriff shared photos of the guns used in the shooting, one of which appeared to have swastikas on it.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • At his door stood the man with the cauliflower ears and neck tattoo of a swastika.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • His chest had on it the swastika against which Washington had gone to battle.
    — Michael Hofmann, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Yet to others, the idea that the swastika could be redeemed is unthinkable.
    — Deepa Bharath, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Most of the reports over the last two years involved vandalism of buildings and homes with swastikas.
    — Catherine Rentz, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2018
  • The swastikas were seen as the war between Israel and Hamas enters its fifth week.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Children chalked drawings of peace signs, hearts and other images in front of the home in which two blue swastikas were found.
    — Jane Morice, cleveland.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • One of the photos appears to show the man on a bus, wearing an armband with a swastika on his right arm.
    — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Workers of color say they were called the N-word and saw swastikas painted on the bathroom.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Someone painted a racial slur and swastikas on his red Ford Mustang in black spray paint.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Despite debates, some swastikas from the Third Reich have been left on church bells.
    — Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Freeman said there is still a large painting of a swastika on one of the building’s walls that the group must remove.
    — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Some might say the boy raised the family’s ire by mowing a 40-foot swastika in their front lawn.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 29 Jan. 2018

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