Example Sentences

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Their fight with the Sharks comes into focus when the gang defaces a wall mural of the flag of Puerto Rico.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2021

She then strips and defaces a portrait of her husband.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2018

“It’s also going to be the last time that anybody defaces the chapel on our campus,” he said.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2017

The twist: Huckins defaces these replicas with cyber-slang text and smartphone icons, painted as neatly as the portraits themselves.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2017

As winter always defaces and erases green summer, so fares it with unstable love in man and woman.

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles