Sentence examples for vandalizing from inspiring English sources

The word "vandalizing" is correct in written English
It is used to describe the act of deliberately destroying or damaging property. Example: "The teenagers were caught vandalizing the park by spray-painting the benches." Alternatives include "defacing" or "damaging."

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vandalizing

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Present participle of vandalize

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Shortly after vandalizing the work he told the BBC that he was "not a vandal," adding, "I haven't done criminal damage".

When she got to the house, she began distroying it, vandalizing it.

Extremists in neo-Nazi masks filmed themselves vandalizing an L.G.B.T. center in Paris.

May 5 2015 May 31 201515 In Emma Reeves's adaptation of Donn Pearce's 1965 novel (which inspired the Paul Newman movie), a decorated, damaged veteran of the Korean War (Lawrence Jansen) is doing time on a chain gang for vandalizing parking meters.

She understands, because she has her past, too: extreme sex, vandalizing cars, talking vulnerable girls into getting more drunk than they should on behalf of some guy.

Vandalizing the atmosphere with greenhouse gases: heat, drought, crop failure.

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In 1938 Nazi storm troopers vandalized Jewish synagogues, shops, and other properties in the night of violence known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass).

The work has been vandalized a number of times since.

Over the following days, dozens of fires were set across London, and stores were vandalized and looted.

Giffords, a moderate Democrat who had voted to support the health care bill, had already had her office vandalized and had experienced an aggressive challenge to her seat from a Republican candidate who was backed by Tea Party supporters.

Exposure to the elements had damaged the plane, and it had been vandalized.

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