graffito
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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
The fabric slid off and there was that familiar graffito.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018
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
“See the strength of the Turk,” warns a large graffito left by a Turkish soldier.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 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.
In Troy, recent graffiti downtown targeted the mayor, city council president and Flock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The city, she noted, already provides graffiti removal and trash pickup services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
The foundation sought to recruit Muslims to spray-paint "sacred graffiti" in the UK.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
"You need to be happy," reads graffiti spray-painted on a ruined building swamped in trash in Cuba's capital Havana.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
There’s more graffiti on the walls of the ditch here, too.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
