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

Another possibility: Was the hillside carving an act of outsize graffito?

From Washington Post • May 16, 2021

The graffito “Bringing you the streets of Derry ’72” was seen in London, Leicester and Manchester.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2019

The departure from type calls to mind an old graffito on the New York City subway: “Allen Ginsberg revises.”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018

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.