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How to use vandal in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Vandal means a person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages things, especially other people's property. Example: “Vandals spray-painted obscenities on the side of the building.”

Examples of vandal by meaning

nounA person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages things, especially other people's property.

  • Vandals spray-painted obscenities on the side of the building.
  • The anonymous vandal was blocked after going on a vandalism spree.

More sentences with vandal

  • The disfiguration of the statue by vandals resulted in a public outcry.From the entry disfiguration
  • The Wiktionary page-blanking vandal was hit with an indefinite block.From the entry block
  • The vandal got off easy, with only a fine.From the entry get off
  • Oh no! A vandal has just smashed our windscreen! Susan, can you go and call the insurance company?From the entry windscreen
  • Break is an ergative verb because when we say "The window broke", the window is the thing getting broken, it is not the vandal.From the entry ergative verb
  • A rogue group of subway vandals calling them the 'Subway Conquestors' is allegedly on a mission to attack the rail system.2015 May 11, “Authorities: Group Of Teen Subway Vandals Could Pose Serious Threat To Straphanger Safety”, in CBS News, archived from the…. From the entry conquestor
  • The place of hooligan shennanigans and vandal scandals.2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry dog rough
  • "We tend to get a bad rap because we are associated with the punk, vandal stereotype given to skateboarders," Pennell said.2007 November 28, Nick Kolich, “Speedboarders fly down hills”, in The Beacon. From the entry speedboard
  • Large, artsy-fartsy walls in hidden locations in an age of vandals can only have one result. (next, sledgehaMMers).2007 March 27, softsofa, “Narrows bike tunnels: stupidity extremis or diabolic cleverness?”, in tacoma.general (Usenet). From the entry vandalicious
  • Will our talk excite the vandal?1993, Fred D'Aguiar, British Subjects. From the entry woz ere
  • In the southern province of Hunan, a recent report revealed that vandals had wrecked 10 of the 25 high schools in Xintian County.1982 August 12, Christopher S. Wren, “CHINA'S BLACK SHEEP 'RE-EDUCATED' WITHOUT TRIAL”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry Xintian
  • As lawmakers and staff rushed out, aides snatched the boxes containing the Electoral College certificates, making sure that the vandals could not literally steal the results of the election.2021 January 7, Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane, “Inside the Capitol, the Sound of the Mob Came First”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry literally
  • Vandals, who couldn't get a Journal any other way, razorbladed Little Princesses sections out of reserved drugstore copies to the great indignation of the ultimate purchasers.1968, Bruce Gould, Beatrice Blackmar Gould, American Story, page 243. From the entry razorblade
  • It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area.1991, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Carmen Carter, Robert Greenberger, Doomsday World (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 12), Pocket…. From the entry transmat

Meaning of vandal

  1. noun A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages things, especially other people's property.

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Questions about vandal in a sentence

How do you use vandal in a sentence?
Vandal is used as a noun. For example: “Vandals spray-painted obscenities on the side of the building.”
What is a short sentence with vandal?
“Will our talk excite the vandal?”
What does vandal mean?
Vandal means a person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages things, especially other people's property.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vandal (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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