vandalism

How To Use vandalism In A Sentence

• A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
• It is an act of vandalism for which the party deserves censure. Times, Sunday Times
• Such a gesture might look to contemporary historians like an act of archival vandalism, but it was entirely characteristic of the old school to which Macmillan belonged.
• In an act of vandalism, the navy had blown this off in 1971 to instal a beacon, which probably never worked. 'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock
• The contrast between the anarchical images of vandalism in Seattle and Genoa and the dignified demeanor of civil rights demonstrators forty years before is striking.
• After the fourth attack on her car she was convinced that the vandalism was more than just coincidence.
• Campanella begins by looking back to when planning was a profession known for visionaries such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Daniel Burnham, and John Nolan, and then describes how in the postwar years planners "aided and abetted some of the most egregious acts of urban vandalism in American history," i.e., urban renewal. Frank Gruber: Planning and Building for the Future, Dead: Round Up the Usual Suspects
• Mindless and dangerous vandalism at a social housing property has been condemned by police.
• Its purpose, they claimed, was to preserve the area from vandalism and commercial enterprise!
• Is this an act of reckless cultural vandalism? Times, Sunday Times