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graffiti

[ US /ɡɹəˈfiti/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹɐfˈiːti/ ]
NOUN
  1. a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls

How To Use graffiti In A Sentence

  • It had its own language, it had developed a dress pattern inspired by the African-American b-boys and b-girls, and its artistic tastes indicated a preference for rap music, breakdancing, and graffiti.
  • ‘The paramilitaries have graffitied threats against us on the walls.’
  • Just as people shouldn't drop litter, they shouldn't deface the city with graffiti, and ways need to be found of persuading them to stop doing it.
  • Eric Widstrand, City Traffic Engineer for the Seattle Department of Transportation, told the newspaper that the hula hoop is a sticker (which is graffiti) that has been applied to the sign to make it look like the pedestrian is hula-hooping. Hooping.org | Blog | Hula Hoop Pedestrian-Crossing Sign Confuses Some
  • The operator is expected to keep the trains clean, and passengers are expected to take their rubbish with them and also not graffiti them.
  • The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
  • Hip-hop rose in urban centers, launched by breakdancers and carried forward by emcees, DJs and graffiti artists.
  • There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions.
  • Graduate of a City Council graffiti-spelling workshop for street kids, he knew how to decode the slogans of the day, how to phase them and how to remix them.
  • But where normal graffiti is executed freehand and as a one-off, stencil graffiti combines the Pop Art ethos of multiples with an aesthetic that mimics the punchy signage favoured by authority.
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