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

Ben Stones’s imposing concrete set includes the signature graffito, “I love you, will u marry me,” that was painted on a concrete bridge of the housing project in 2001 and became an unlikely Sheffield icon.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 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

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2019

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.