How to Use vandalize in a Sentence

vandalize

verb

• Our car was vandalized in the parking lot.
• But last month, the city learned the park was vandalized and key equipment had been stolen.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
• The crime is not the first time the historic landmark has been vandalized.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• The signs have been taken, vandalized, and shot at over and over.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• It has not been stolen or vandalized in the way that Williams alleges his sign was.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2023
• 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
• There’s no word yet on word on who vandalized the billboard.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 26 July 2019
• Two years ago, an obelisk erected in 1874 to mark the spot where Cook was killed, on Kealakekua Bay, was vandalized.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Merz said the plaque there has been vandalized many times over the years, and the targets have been presidents on both sides of the aisle.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2019
• Later that week, a mob of people vandalized and lit one of its cars on fire.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• It's been more than eight decades since it was vandalized and destroyed.
  — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 19 June 2024
• The witness told the outlet the Waymo was vandalized and set on fire by a big group of people.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• The night before school, the home is vandalized and a front window is shattered.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• In the case of Tarkwa Bay, the claim is oil pipelines on the island are often vandalized.
  — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 31 Jan. 2020
• And his brother-in-law’s house, which is attached to his own, was not vandalized.
  — Krutika Pathi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• The field was vandalized by what appears to be a joyrider doing donuts in their car.
  — Kody Fisher, Cincinnati.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• Mobs have set fire to over 350 churches and vandalized over a dozen temples.
  — Sushant Singh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2023
• Soon after the attack, the graves of Mr. Ho’s parents were vandalized.
  — Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 27 July 2019
• The night before, St. John’s had been vandalized with graffiti, and a fire had burned the basement.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 2 June 2020
• There was a great clarity to their message to go out and vandalize.
  — Hazlitt, 5 Oct. 2022
• The bull, the symbol of a surging stock market, has been vandalized before.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2019
• The spectator no longer bothers to vandalize the glass doors of the cinema.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• This year, the fairgrounds were vandalized shortly before the event.
  — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Since it was first erected in 2008, the sign in Glendora, Miss., has been stolen and twice vandalized with bullet holes.
  — Vanessa Swales, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
• The victim said a woman had vandalized his vehicle in an amount greater than $400 and fled on foot.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• Jenni Rivera's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has barely had its day in the sun, and it has already been vandalized.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 July 2024
• In the neighborhood around Place de l’Étoile, mansions were vandalized and burned.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• This is the fourth time this year someone has vandalized the iconic Colosseum, the AP noted.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2023
• Small businesses have had their windows smashed and shopfronts vandalized.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
• The Tennessean reports that Locke’s church has been vandalized previously, including in March when local police responded to a trailer fire in which hundreds of Bibles were burned on the intersection where the church is located.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024