graffito

Example Sentences

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“Thus, the monk drew a graffito of a cross onto the wall, accompanied by a prayer with which he was very familiar.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Last month I was able to solve the mystery of a graffito on an I-66 overpass that drivers have seen for decades.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2022

“See the strength of the Turk,” warns a large graffito left by a Turkish soldier.

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2015

Adding insult to injury was the appearance of a stenciled graffito — “It’s Like Talkin to a Wall” — across the section, with the same sentiment expressed in Arabic above and Hebrew below.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2015

Not until the last half of the twentieth century would the graffito in English receive the kind of attention that had been paid it in England in the 1730s.

From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 by Guffey, George R.