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How to use vandalism in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Vandalism means willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement. Example: “As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism: spray paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.”

Examples of vandalism by meaning

nounWillful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

  • As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism: spray paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.
  • The pair were swept away in the 1970s in an act of corporate and civic vandalism.2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57

More sentences with vandalism

  • There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.From the entry art
  • The anonymous vandal was blocked after going on a vandalism spree.From the entry vandal
  • Acts of vandalism were committed by a raucous gang of drunkards.From the entry raucous
  • The recent spate of vandalism by pupils does not reflect well on the school.From the entry reflect on
  • There has been a rash of vandalism lately.From the entry rash
  • There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.From the entry outbreak
  • Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of a problem.From the entry admittedly
  • It's easy to sneak vandalism into Wiktionary as there are few other users prowling the Recent Changes page.From the entry prowl
  • “The modern addiction to fossil fuels is not just an act of environmental vandalism.2022 September 14, Arthur Neslen, quoting Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation…. From the entry self-sabotage
  • It sure would put a crimp in things to have any vandalism happen here.2014, Gail Loreth, Sarah’s Revenge, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry put a crimp in
  • Twitter broke the news, and soon enough, the media hullaballooed over this latest act of art vandalism.2012 October 30, Jessica Redmond, “It was all yellow: Some dude defaces a Rothko in the name of ‘yellowism’”, in Columbia Spectator. From the entry hullabaloo
  • Security software firm McAfee estimates that cybertheft and vandalism cost the US economy $20 billion per year.2008, Markus Jakobsson, Zulfikar Ramzan, Crimeware: understanding new attacks and defenses. From the entry cybertheft
  • If so, you need only to put rvv (which stands for revert vandalism) in the edit summary.2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 95. From the entry rvv
  • One problem that became apparent from almost the first acquisition, was that of vandalism and pilfering.1973, John Postlewait, Harry Knudson, “Some experiences in land acquisition for a land disposal system for sewage effluent”, in…. From the entry moonlight requisition
  • It is obvious that it is nonsense as well as vandalism to separate Glastonbury Abbey from Glastonbury.1922, G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America. From the entry idolatrise
  • For the most part, however, such ventures are essentially forms of crime or vandalism, and do not require military preparations.2018, A. Trevor Thrall, Benjamin H. Friedman, US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century: The Case For Restraint. From the entry cybergeek
  • How about simply not notable, vandalism, hoax, etc?2015, Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry speedy delete
  • Further up the ladder are editors with access to articles that have been restricted because of vandalism or “edit-warring.”2010, John K. Waters, The Everything Guide to Social Media: All You Need to Know About Participating in Today’s Most Popular Online…. From the entry edit-war
  • Vandalism becomes virtually nonoccurring, except during vacations (which should tell us something about some students’ needs to be involved).1975 February 18, Roger Toland, quoting Raymond Peterson, “Toland topics”, in Rapid City Journal, number 29632, Rapid City, S.D., page 14. From the entry nonoccurring
  • If people stopped believing in the Wikipedian ideal, and used its tools for vandalism, "it's unlikely the whole enterprise would survive a week"2008 March 21, Pat Kane, “Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater”, in Independent. From the entry Wikipedian
  • “I guess the warm weather makes the sap run,” remarked a débonnaire police chief while surveying the weekend quota of vandalism in an eastern town.1969, Bernard Rudofsky, Streets for People: A Primer for Americans, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 330. From the entry débonnaire
  • He was arrested in March after an Instagram-savvy follower recognized the location of his livestream and called the cops, and Ross now faces 29 felony charges of vandalism.2018 July 12, Nuala Sawyer, “City Cracks Down on Graffiti Artists”, in SF Weekly, volume 37, number 29, San Francisco, Calif., page 10…. From the entry livestream
  • It seemed a little knee-jerkish anyway, too obvious for the neighbor across the street to do, and a little too much like adolescent vandalism for my own conscience.2001, Terry Osborne, Sightlines: The View of a Valley Through the Voice of Depression, University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry knee-jerkish

Meaning of vandalism

  1. noun Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

Full definition of vandalism

Questions about vandalism in a sentence

How do you use vandalism in a sentence?
Vandalism is used as a noun. For example: “As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism: spray paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.”
What is a short sentence with vandalism?
“Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of a problem.”
What does vandalism mean?
Vandalism means willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vandalism (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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