How to Use tagger in a Sentence
tagger
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Are the words not merely the pseudonyms of the taggers?
—Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 23 June 2017
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Taggers use a spear to shoot a dart-like transmitter the size of a pinky next to a shark’s dorsal fin.
—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
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My tagger was a philosopher with a can of turquoisespray paint.
—Karina Bland, azcentral, 13 Feb. 2020
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Even before the death of George Floyd and the wave of nationwide protests that followed, a tagger struck the city's stakepark.
—al, 7 June 2020
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Like the name suggests, players must design a tagger and a runner, and the objective of the game is to tag the other player to win.
—Washington Post, 5 May 2021
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Those amounts don’t include $200 each tagger must contribute to the Spray and Pay rewards fund.
—David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
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Police are not sure who this tagger is but are tracking his spray painting via GARI.
—Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2012
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Hunter, the young tagger, might believe in miracles now.
—Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
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Chilli’s father is played by Brian Dennehy, which also happens to be the name of one of the real-life taggers.
—Rob McKittrick, New York Times, 14 June 2018
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In KGB’s heyday, the District was home to underground punk, hard core, hip-hop and go-go music scenes, all with their own taggers.
—Anthony J. Rivera, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
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This is not the handiwork of world-famous tagger Chaka.
—Longreads, 7 Nov. 2019
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As protesters scuffled with the tagger and his crew, one of the crew broke the window, according to Anthony.
—Quinn Norton, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2011
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Ayton’s rim gravity pulls Jackson, the tagger, in from the corner.
—Shane Young, Forbes, 22 June 2021
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This allows the tagger to notify the tag-ee that the tweet contains something that might interest them or, indeed, is about them.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2018
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The amateur taggers must work fast despite their inexperience; the goal is for each fish to spend no more than six minutes out of the water.
—Brian Owens, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2023
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Standing at the bow was veteran sea turtle tagger Scott Benson, holding a large hoop with an equally large net attached to it.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
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Davila Ross and her colleagues also noticed that, like kids, the gorillas would reverse roles, so sometimes the first hitter would be the tagger, and vice versa.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2010
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Her office gave out tough penalties to graffiti taggers, drug dealers and those who weren’t paying child support.
—Josiah Bates, Time, 2 July 2019
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Nearly every wall space is filled and even the graffiti from taggers who snuck into the building before Soho House took over remains on the exposed brick walls.
—Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2019
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Graffiti has come a long way since the 1970s when fly-by-night taggers sprayed their work on bridge abutments or subway cars then slipped away before the authorities arrived.
—Alan Feuer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
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The lettering is blue and orange in the cartoonish printing that taggers often favor.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2024
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The taggers at Oceanwide Plaza transformed this urban albatross with color and pattern.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
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Waters also had taggers scrawl words of geopolitical protest on the show’s inflatable pig, and a graffiti artist painted the soundman’s Rat insignia on one of its feet.
—Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
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The Beth Israel swordsman has disappeared from view, but the alleged uterus-tagger—whose charges were dismissed—appears to be practicing in Laguna Beach.
—Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
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Meanwhile, authorities and city officials are struggling to keep away more taggers and BASE-jumping thrill-seekers.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
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The daring stunt served as a bat signal to the rest of L.A.’s graffiti community, including prolific tagger Endem, who dreamed of seeing his own name in 13-foot-tall block letters adorning the building.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
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Taggers sprayed graffiti on the highest reaches of the building and shattered windows line the exterior, providing easy access for trespassers.
—Plain Dealer Staff, cleveland.com, 7 July 2017
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As for Renner, well … by design his character is the odd man out, a superhumanly gifted tagger not above commando tactics.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
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Back in the ’80s and early ’90s, Hugh Carew, a former D.C. police detective, took an interest in taggers while investigating robberies and assaults.
—Anthony J. Rivera, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
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Great stretches of the riverfront walkways that abut the high travertine embankments built after disastrous flooding in 1870 have been abandoned to the dubious artistic talents of graffiti taggers.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2016
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