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Example sentences for "defacement"

Lexicographically close words:
deeth; deevil; deevils; deface; defaced; defacing; defalcation; defalcations; defalt; defamation
  1. A bendlet wavy sinister is such an absolute defacement of a crest that few can care to make use of a crest so marked.

  2. And so let me ask you to look, in the next place, at the defacement of the image and the wrong expenditure of the coin.

  3. Probably other instances of property defacement will be found, but these so far are the most glaring that have come to light.

  4. We understand that Principal Handley is already in correspondence with the authorities at Alton Academy and that the wanton defacement of school property will not be allowed to pass unpunished.

  5. Vents which tapped it far down the volcano's flanks prevented its filling with molten lava; absence of rain has preserved its walls intact and saved its pristine beauty from the defacement of erosion.

  6. Standing on the rim he suggested to Professor Joseph Le Conte that an effort be made to induce the national government to save it from defacement and private exploitation.

  7. But the masses, the main lines, were originally noble, and defacement has only made their nobleness and tenderness more evident and poignant: they have come to partake of the special solemnity of stone worn by frost and sunshine.

  8. From failure to observe this simple precaution, you will find in all libraries multitudes of torn or broken bindings at the top--a wholly needless defacement and waste.

  9. Never before has there been such widespread ravage of the earth's surface by the destruction of vegetation, and with it, animal life, and such wholesale defacement of the earth.

  10. One of the islanders might chance to observe the defacement of the tomb.

  11. It seemed that the dead boy resented the defacement of his tomb, resented the deliberate untruth which concealed from the painter his dreary destiny, and came up out of the other world to proclaim the clergyman's deception.

  12. The Journal had been calling the attention of its readers to the defacement of the landscape by billboard advertisers.

  13. The mother was looking at the landscape when suddenly she commented: "There are some of those ugly advertising signs that Mr. Bok says are such a defacement to the landscape.

  14. The defacement of the city was proceeding merrily, and we cannot doubt that Scott was one of the few who disapproved.

  15. Topographically it is so related to the park that any defacement of its present beauty by unsightly usage would greatly injure the value of the western portion of Highland Park.

  16. The whole bank should be owned or controlled by the City to prevent its defacement and to preserve a natural element of civic interest and beauty.

  17. It should be protected from defacement and its earthy portions should be reclothed with the beauty of foliage.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defacement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.