graffitied

past tense of graffiti

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for graffitied
Verb
  • Trump’s order also directs administration officials to terminate or revoke visas if foreign nationals are found to have desecrated the flag.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
  • When Melanson failed to comply with Lino’s instructions, Lino allegedly beat the older man with a baseball bat and then desecrated his corpse.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Contender, the largest shark ever tagged by OCEARCH, was originally tagged in January offshore of the Florida-Georgia border.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • During the springs of 2022 and 2023, the researchers tagged 14 different bats, gathering incredible reports of the furry mammals’ adventures.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Avoid cans that are damaged, dented, bulging, or leaking.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Adding mulch too early when temperatures are still warm traps heat and tricks plant roots to remain active and produce new growth that can be damaged by cold temperatures.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Last week, retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Emerson released his 42-page advisory opinion that preceded the board’s vote, finding that Corpus violated conflict-of-interest laws and retaliated against deputies who challenged her authority.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • On October 7th, a federal judge agreed that ICE had violated the terms of the decree.
    Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In true Charlie Kirk fashion, a group of young people took matters into their own hands after a mural honoring the late conservative leader was defaced with vile messages.
    Lorraine Taylor, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The pressure builds until Eddie has a meltdown in public, shaking and threatening the kids who defaced his car.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Petroglyphs at Big Bend National Park in Texas were vandalized and irreparably damaged.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The laws regulating undercover operations are relatively lenient in Australia; in Canada, which has long used similar tactics, judges have challenged the targeting of suspects who are socially isolated or cognitively impaired.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But 24 of the 30 were impaired by pollution – primarily nitrogen – at the time of this designation, and today, their condition has not improved.
    Christopher F. Meindl, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The run-up to the vote was marred by arrests, intimidation, and disqualifications that left little doubt about the government’s determination to retain power.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • What little momentum the Broncos created was frequently marred by penalties, and a third-down sack had ruined a scoring chance in the first half.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Graffitied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graffitied. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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