How to Use vandalize in a Sentence

vandalize

verb
  • Our car was vandalized in the parking lot.
  • Bears poach hot tubs, vandalize yard decor, and steal too many crash cans to count.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
  • This is the second time in the last year the trail has been vandalized.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2018
  • Her husband found the flag vandalized on the ground down the street.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 27 June 2025
  • The agent said more than 10 of her signs have been vandalized.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The signs have been taken, vandalized, and shot at over and over.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • It's been more than eight decades since it was vandalized and destroyed.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 19 June 2024
  • But last month, the city learned the park was vandalized and key equipment had been stolen.
    — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
  • Later that week, a mob of people vandalized and lit one of its cars on fire.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The store was vandalized later that night.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • Rini said that one of the housing unit's in the jail was vandalized.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But the group alleged the bus was vandalized with eggs during their stop.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2025
  • Every now and then someone vandalizes one or more of the rocks with a splash of paint.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 9 July 2018
  • The crime is not the first time the historic landmark has been vandalized.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • It has not been stolen or vandalized in the way that Williams alleges his sign was.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2023
  • And his brother-in-law’s house, which is attached to his own, was not vandalized.
    — Krutika Pathi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Cameras have been vandalized and stolen.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The film’s crew members were attacked and sets were vandalized.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Last year, a group of teenagers vandalized a historic black schoolhouse with swastikas and hate speech.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The field was vandalized by what appears to be a joyrider doing donuts in their car.
    — Kody Fisher, Cincinnati.com, 31 Jan. 2020
  • There was a great clarity to their message to go out and vandalize.
    — Hazlitt, 5 Oct. 2022
  • King’s Chapel’s graphics, alas, have been vandalized, with some slashed.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 July 2025
  • The night before school, the home is vandalized and a front window is shattered.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Deputies said the man then vandalized the truck with a rock before returning to the brush.
    — Tim Fang, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • Their home was vandalized with eggs, paint balls and feces, according to the suit.
    — Agueda Pacheco-Flores, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Many have been destroyed or vandalized, perhaps by squatters, teenagers or the urbex set.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Two weeks after that, police confirmed that her house was shot and vandalized with a pellet gun.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Mobs have set fire to over 350 churches and vandalized over a dozen temples.
    — Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This year, the fairgrounds were vandalized shortly before the event.
    — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Over the past two years, these flags have been stolen and vandalized at least 10 times, according to the church.
    — Gwen Howerton, Chron, 19 Sep. 2024

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