spray paint
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After getting out a few cans of spray paint, something drew him to the manhole cover in the street.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Tim Speers, 39, is alleged to have been found with spray paint, super glue and red boiler suits at the Daylesford Estate in Gloucestershire on 29 July 2022.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2025
Most of the city’s “no stopping any time” street signs and “no trespassing” placards have been knocked down or tagged with spray paint.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024
In another part of the video taken at night, he is seen apparently urinating on the pillar and using spray paint to write “toilet” in English.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
Catfish and spray paint in hand, Margo threw the door open, jogged across the Worthingtons’ expansive front lawn, and then hid behind an oak tree.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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