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Example sentences from the Web for VandalsLooters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said. This Week's Riots Are Part of America's Long History of Racial Rage|Sharon Adarlo|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Vandals have defaced them with red paint splotches that look like bullet holes oozing with blood. Defying NATO, Ignoring Ceasefire, Russian-Backed Troops Keep Rolling|Ted Phillips|September 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST But there is a strong resolve to vote despite the risk, a fierce determination to vanquish the Vandals. With Poroshenko on the Ukraine Campaign Trail|Bernard-Henri Lévy|May 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST The country is stuck with the vandals, and vandalism is all they can commit, because that is who they are. Mr. Smith's Insane Cousins Go to Washington|Michael Tomasky|December 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST
As Andrew Sullivan wrote yesterday, a word I re-used on television last night, they are vandals. Mr. Smith's Insane Cousins Go to Washington|Michael Tomasky|December 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST Leo determined to extirpate the tyranny of the Vandals, and solemnly invested Anthemius with the diadem and purple of the West . The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI.|Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton Such was a measure of the speedy justice which is being meted out to vandals in Galveston. The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror|Various Belisarius, with great wisdom, began by attacking the Vandals at Carthage on the extreme right. The Roman and the Teuton|Charles Kingsley Unfortunately the waiters at Banff were proved as ruthless as vandals in other parts of the world. How to Know the Ferns|Frances Theodora Parsons Later it was mutilated by a crowd of vandals as an expression of their hostility to all things British. Give Me Liberty|Thomas J. Wertenbaker
A people of northern Europe, known for their cruelty and destructiveness, who invaded the Roman Empire and plundered Rome itself in the fifth century. notes for VandalsThe term vandalism, meaning wanton destructiveness, comes from the name of the Vandals. Words nearby Vandalsvandal, Vandalia, vandalic, vandalism, vandalize, Vandals, Van de Graaff, Van de Graaff generator, Vandemonian, Vandenberg, Vanderbilt The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |