Sentence examples for were defaced from inspiring English sources

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were defaced

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To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.

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His real-estate signs were defaced.

Some of the weapons' serial numbers were defaced.

At least six high-profile United States sites were defaced, apparently by Chinese hackers.

When his campaign posters were defaced with swastikas and racist graffiti — "Dirty Arab" — he ignored it.

Soon after, several Holocaust memorials were defaced or vandalised and a Jewish cemetery was desecrated.

Our campuses and civic spaces were defaced by ziggurats of cement.

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"I thought we were defacing art," he said.

In Portland, officials said taggers from other communities were defacing their property.

Kiosks have been defaced.

It was defaced.

It's not being defaced.

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