How To Use Vandalise In A Sentence
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They are not going to vandalise the woods.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have vandalised property, strewn litter and intimidated staff and residents.
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The fitments have been vandalised and the flaking concrete of the buildings is smothered in graffiti.
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And a helluva place to leave it - right out in the open for anyone to nick, or vandalize.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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When the couple got up the next morning they found the scooter flung on their lawn, its ignition ripped out, its battery damaged, and the seat vandalised.
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CAMARILLO -- A Jewish preschool in Camarillo has been vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases for the second time in a week and the fourth time in a year.
Larisa Alexandrovna: The Evil of It All...
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One resident, who wished to remain unnamed, said the lifts had been damaged, the careline tampered with, doorbells vandalised and windows broken.
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Visit the neighborhoods where half the houses are empty, vandalized and then leveled by the city because they are no longer of reclaimable.
Rising Value of a Vote in a Struggling Economy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Have you ever seriously vandalized someone's property?
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I found my mother's grave had been knocked over and saw others had been vandalised too.
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vandalize the park
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We'd vandalise, bully people, shoplift and fight.
The Sun
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After years of asking the locals not to congregate in front of his business, he confronted a group he believed vandalized some of his property.
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Such exasperation may have led to posters being stolen and vandalised but there could be another reason.
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Windows had been broken, houses pelted by eggs and apples, cars damaged and property vandalised.
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We must send out a message that to vandalise public facilities is neither big nor clever.
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Not to sabotage our democracy and vandalise the fragile process of government by consent.
The Sun
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Plans are under way to revamp a children's play area which was vandalised by drunken youths over Christmas.
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The walls had been horribly vandalized with spray paint.
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Residents only knew of plans for this when we asked workmen who were dismantling the old and vandalised pieces of play equipment.
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On Tuesday, neds vandalised Arteta's £85,000 Porsche at a tenpin bowling alley in Glasgow.
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The van was seemingly abandoned by police – no officers were inside as protesters started to vandalise it, and police looked on helplessly from around 50 metres away as activists climbed onto the roof, smashed windows, spraypainted its sides and, at one point, threw a smoke bomb inside.
Second day of student protests - how the demonstrations happened
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After expelling the reporters, the goons vandalized the newspaper's equipment.
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I couldn't come up with anything that wouldn't get my car keyed or otherwise vandalized in the middle of the night.
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They vandalise the built heritage and make neighbours' lives a misery.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
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The phone box was vandalized by a gang of youths.
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Property is still being damaged and cars are still being vandalised on a regular basis.
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This has upset local residents, who are sick of their environment being vandalised and believe this packaging design glorifies the neds who are causing the trouble.
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We don't get the stereotypical skinheads we got in the late 70s and early 80s but we do seem to get loads of yobs who think it highly amusing to vandalise, scrawl graffiti in the children's play area and walls around the rec and take drugs.
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The three-day summit left the ancient port of Genoa littered with burnt-out cars, smashed windows and vandalised property.
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Pizza Nonna is next to two second-hand shops but these have not been vandalised.
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It's disgraceful how some people just wantonly vandalise other people's property.
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To destroy it is to vandalise history - an inexcusable crime.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have been harassed at work and their property has been vandalized.
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Actors from the West End musical Mamma Mia! and film director Michael Winner have joined protests against plans to "vandalise" one of Britain's most architecturally beautiful shopping arcades.
Fury grows over Burlington Arcade renovation as shopkeeper faces eviction
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The walls have been horribly vandalized with spray paint.
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And class, you DO know the origin of the term "vandalize," right?
But It Was Her Day To Drive The Car Pool
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This vengeful ghost has damaged attractions, vandalized shops and has driven away the park patrons.
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It was part of a Skipton Civic Society project to restore the area and Gwynne Walters, from the society, made a plea to the local community not to deface the bridge nor vandalise the area.
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The cemetery was vandalized during the night.
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The top floor of the unit was vandalised, with damage understood to have run into thousands of pounds.
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We have had seats from the ground dragged right up Rawdon Billing, the wicket covers have been damaged, and doors and locks on the scorebox and garages have been vandalised.
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The trouble with such sites is that it is just as easy for someone vandalise their pages as it is for someone to add something useful or constructive.
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But in relation to the new cemetery, I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
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One resident, who wished to remain unnamed, said the lifts had been damaged, the careline tampered with, doorbells vandalised and windows broken.
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The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Most are untaxed, others carry out-of-date tax discs and virtually all have flat tyres or have been vandalised and are obviously dumped.
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I'm not sure if Chrissy Satterfield quite understands what "vandalize" means because you can only vandalize something physical -- property that belongs to someone else.
About.com Agnosticism / Atheism
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The facade is vandalised - not a single pane of glass remains and graffiti despoils the faience tiling - and also has extensive vegetation sprouting from the most unlikely places.
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More than 1,000 worth of equipment was stolen and a caravan used for less-abled members was broken into and vandalised.
The Sun
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He was also recorded bragging about plans to vandalise court buildings.
The Sun
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MoMA cut ties with happycorp after ECD / founder Doug Jaeger (enabling ad renegade Poster Boy to "vandalize" one of its subway print installations.
Adrants
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They are the type of teenagers likely to vandalize phone boxes.
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Some young heathen has vandalized the bus shelter.
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To vandalize an art work - even a bad art work, even a morally reprehensible art work - is to adopt the tactics of the enemies of culture.
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You can't even tell someone not to vandalise public property without getting attacked these days.
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The dealership is having difficulty in locating the names of the owners of the vandalized vehicles.
Killer cop in Chasse case may get suspended (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The people who are taking part in this anti-social behaviour are asked to think about the consequences of their actions before they vandalise their community again.
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The entrance to the tunnel was gated off six years ago because of vandalism but the gate itself was subsequently vandalised and had to be replaced in 2001.
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Resulting in the astonishing precedent that it is ok to vandalise things in the name of Gaia.
Kingsnorth Police Criticised Over Cost Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Several thugs wanted to attack a military post and vandalise public property in the vicinity of Azadi Square," the radio said referring to the site of the rally held on Monday.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16)
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But all too often we let a sense of entitlement vandalize a decent amount of reasonable wants.
Lighten Up
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(The Vandals were so barbaric and destructive that the modern term "vandalize" is derived from their name.)
The Real Truth
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Vandals have wrecked trees and vandalised a bus stop in a quiet residential street.
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In previous incidents trampolines have been vandalised and on one occasion a knife was left in the playground.
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The hoodlums reportedly beat Palestinian villagers and vandalised their property.
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And a helluva place to leave it - right out in the open for anyone to nick, or vandalize.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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The invaders vandalized the museum.
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The phone box was vandalized by a gang of youths.
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Mr Redegalli said the mural has been vandalised twice since he painted it on Monday, once with the word 'bogan' written across it.
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
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And far too many have had their property stolen or vandalised.
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Other sections have been vandalized, covered in graffiti and ripped up for use in pigsties and coal mines.
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They were known to cause disturbances and vandalise parked cars, particularly at weekends.
Times, Sunday Times
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He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
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The abandoned cars are thought to have been vandalised and emptied by an angry mob.
The Sun
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It has all the cosy warmth and charm of a vandalised Portakabin.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Following the decline of the Stockton to Darlington railway, the station gradually fell into disrepair and was repeatedly vandalised.
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Some of them even admitted they had used the riots to vandalise places where they'd been turned down for jobs.
Reading the riots: ask the reason why | Editorial
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Hamer residents say they are living in fear after gangs went on the rampage and vandalised cars.
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A couple that vandalized a nativity display got to march through town with the donkey.
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The abandoned cars are thought to have been vandalised and emptied by an angry mob.
The Sun
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The sand lay white as fallen snow, broken only by ebon shadows that betokened the presence of a vandalized tomb or sunken shrine.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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Stanley estimated that the cost of repairing the house ran between £8,000 to £9,000 because it was vandalised in the interim.
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They vandalized the arcade and 40 pinball machines and injured six security personnel guarding the arcade.
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She probably got it from a pig so she can vandalize everything I own.
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The walls have been horribly vandalized with spray paint.
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He was particularly infuriated by a statement of support from lecturers at Goldsmiths: "I can imagine what they would say were a group from the TaxPayers' Alliance to turn up at their homes and vandalise them in protest at the way these lecturers are leeching the taxpayer and failing to discipline their students.
Cribsheet daily 16.11.10
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If planning permission were granted, then there is the age-old chestnut of any memorial being vandalised or messed upon by pigeons.
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A couple of years ago, a band of local yahoos vandalized their home, threw bottles of beer through two front windows, kicked in the front door, trashed the garden, and cut the phone line to the house.
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One resident said groups of up to 40 teenagers are binge drinking in Cheam Park, and have vandalised cars and fencing at homes overlooking the park.
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The walls had been horribly vandalized with spray paint.
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A Bradford clergyman has condemned the ‘malicious’ acts of vandals who show lack of respect and vandalise church property.
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Look for instance at plants: vandalized trees send out new shoots, grass grows on rubbish dumps, flowers spring up in scrap yards.
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The photographers don't steal or vandalise where they trespass.
The Sun
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The hooligans also vandalised changing rooms at a nearby school.
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They even tried to pay gang members to vandalize her car.
Gaston Caperton: The New Language of Furr
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It vandalises a gutsy satirical classic, in this case with a mixture of misjudged condescension, smirking spoofery and culpable failure of nerve.
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The wooden fence is vandalised repeatedly and, although the council repairs the damage, for periods of time broken pieces are left strewn across the area.
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The chance that the checkers will vandalize is minimal and can easily be changed back by another “trusted” user. —
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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When 1 UCC church was vandalized, you condemned conservative evangelicals for being slow to the draw in condemning that act.
Science
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The fitments have been vandalised and the flaking concrete of the buildings is smothered in graffiti.
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The villagers died when petrol gushing out of the vandalised pipeline in a rural region in the south-east of the country caught fire.
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I'm not certain, though, and this is the reason I have bound more paper into my book, vandalized another label printer cartridge, cut myself another pen: it may be that if I write things down I can keep track of the days.
The Life of the World to Come
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The villagers died when petrol gushing out of the vandalised pipeline in a rural region in the south-east of the country caught fire.
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Shops were vandalised, buildings occupied and a barricade set ablaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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He told me the game was off because the goalposts had been vandalised and the pitch was unplayable.
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It stops communities from becoming dysfunctional ghost towns, it keeps people off the street or from living in their cars, it is good for the banks to generate some cash flow rather than sit on an empty house for who knows how long, and finally it allows the house to retain more value than if it was left empty, unmaintained and potentially squatted in or vandalized.
Archive 2009-02-08
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The new community centre will replace the old one which has been vandalised beyond repair.
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I also learned how to smash someone's face in with a bar, and the correct boots to wear to kick, severely damage and vandalize private property.
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A vandalised car, all but ignored by passers-by, reflects how commonplace minor crime has become in small towns.
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The phone box was vandalized by a gang of youths.
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A crowd of between 300 and 400 drunken louts clashed with police officers and vandalised a tram after the match.
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Dozens of installations on motorways and major roads have been vandalised.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look for instance at plants: vandalized trees send out new shoots, grass grows on rubbish dumps, flowers spring up in scrap yards.
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But the new powers will not be in operation in York until next month and will only apply to cars of no value that have been vandalised or torched.
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But 'razing fees' are a legal way for taxpayers to protect themselves from the ghost boxe that turn into vandalized eyesores.
Al Norman: Towns Fight Back Against "Ghost Box" Scare
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They also vandalized three fast-food restaurants by etching the glass.
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He is being paid to "vandalise" three large walls inside Henderson Gallery on Thistle Street Lane.
Undefined
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Three decades on these houses are slums to be demolished and the greenway, as described in your article, is a vandalised yobs' playground full of litter and burned-out cars.
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On the journey home, he went berserk and vandalised the railway carriage - ‘a mute expression of a grief and rage too terrible to bear’.
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I watched as they vandalized school property and damaged just about everything inside that classroom.
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Pizza Nonna is next to two second-hand shops but these have not been vandalised.
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To vandalize is to destroy, and there’s nothing destructive about cleaning (except maybe to the dirt and grime).
REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art | Inhabitat
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Why were hooligans again able to vandalise public buildings and deface national memorials?
The Sun
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It stands to vandalise its own economies if it wilfully damages ours.
The Sun
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Some young people get drunk and vandalise property.
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Shops were vandalised, buildings occupied and a barricade set ablaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visiting groups or individuals are to obey the school rules and regulations; do not smoke, drink, drive,(sentence dictionary) or vandalize on campus during your stay on campus.
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The speakers will be installed throughout the station in inaccessible or high areas to stop them being vandalised.
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Shops were vandalised, buildings occupied and a barricade set ablaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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One disaster follows another on this, the worst day of Bruce Nolan's life, as he's fired from the station, beaten up by a gang of toughs, who then vandalise his car.
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The buildings had been vandalised - taps, pipes and toilet fittings have been damaged and in cases, removed.
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When was the last time you broke or vandalized another's property?
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Several buildings are boarded up and vandalised.
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Passengers alighting from trains at the city railway station have no easy access to the two bus stations; the subway is of little help and has been vandalised.
