Sentence examples for to be defaced from inspiring English sources

The Constitution is not going to be defaced by the "Marriage Protection Amendment," as its supporters style it.

A signpost near the kangaroos, making the sacrilegious claim that the continents shifted 40m years ago, used to be defaced almost daily.

Standing outside the dairy looking over the hills on a gloriously clear, sunny day, he says: "People here are very, very disappointed that their area is going to be defaced – which will also hit tourists and tourist businesses.

Mr. Scorsese's 19th-century epic culminates with the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots, which reduced much of the city to a smoking ruin, then fades out with a photomontage of the soaring downtown skyline that emerged out of those ashes only to be defaced on Sept. 11.

Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame continues to be defaced.

Perpetually mourning the loss of Black lives at the hands of law enforcement, saying the names of the dead, memorializing them in murals only to be defaced by the hands of white supremacists is exhausting.

The men, who were arrested, said that they did not know each other beforehand and had merely happened to be defacing the painting at the same time.

Rome cannot be defaced by those who want it to became the set of the Godfather".

Is someone going to take the masks down, or will London's monuments be defaced forever?

The original dedication to Bonaparte was defaced: Beethoven announced that Napoleon was "a tyrant", who "will think himself superior to all men", and re-named the symphony the "Eroica".

Instead, the story of how the piece's original dedication to Bonaparte was defaced by Beethoven is the stuff of symphonic legend, based on Ferdinand Ries's memory of what happened when he told the composer that Napoleon had styled himself Emperor in May 1804.