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Sentence Examples Students taking exams had a last-minute change of venue after vandals struck a school building. The couple believe vandals deliberately dropped the heavy panel on to their car from a bridge. Every public bench along the river had been systematically smashed by vandals last summer. The vandals broke into the car, damaged the ignition and stole her walking stick. A woman today told of her horror after every room in her house was spray-painted by vandals. Windows were smashed and the roof was damaged but the vandals failed to get into the building. Council chiefs have slammed vandals who deliberately damaged a historic priory. Generous people have raised money to replace church windows that were destroyed by vandals. Police have pledged to step up patrols in a bid to get tough with the vandals. The school has been damaged by vandals on a number of occasions over the last few years. We have had many problems over the years with vandals, litter, graffiti, drugs and drink. Only weeks ago, vandals set fire to a portable toilet in a school playground. Angry shop owners are calling on police to get tough with vandals who are targeting their businesses. A mother has hit out at vandals who damaged a memorial to her teenage daughter. He said all the trees on the land were damaged by vandals four months ago and only replaced this week. New mobile wardens will be laying on night-time patrols to deter vandals and thieves who prey on visitors. But two days before Friday's grand switch-on ceremony vandals removed bulbs from the display and smashed them in the street. This is the minimum price the vandals must be made to pay for their villainy. After a medical centre in West Bowling was targeted by vandals, fences were fitted out of the centre's own funds. Mr Konemann planted bushes and shrubs to keep vandals and people with dogs out of the council-owned grounds. Show More Sentences And at about 2.30 pm the vandals went one further when a plastic-windowed bus shelter was gutted by fire. It has now stood empty for more than five years and has been damaged by vandals who have started fires. Residents across the country are being urged to take a stand against vandals, thugs and yobs that plague their communities. A children's nursery which has become a target for vandals needs help to protect itself. A cash-strapped Sea Cadet unit has had its donated minibus torched by vandals, months after all the unit's windows were smashed. Investigating officers say the vandals had to dig 3ft into the ground to get at the wooden casket containing Margaret's ashes. A disabled car owner has been left with no transport and a hefty bill after vandals sprayed his car with a corrosive substance. Select a release site that is an easily accessible, sunny location, not highly visible to vandals and others who may disturb the release area. A waterside football club has been left with a bill running into hundreds of pounds after a spate of attacks by vandals. Haven't churches, synagogues and mosques met the same fate at the hands of vandals? Eastleigh police are vowing to get tough with vandals who are putting the lives of motorists at risk by hurling missiles at cars. The much-loved gardens have been closed in line with library and coffee shop closing times to limit the access vandals have to the grounds. However, she said she wanted a conciliatory approach taken with the vandals in the true spirit of the sculpture. I spent an entire day, nearly 12 hours, because of inept vandals, who as it turns out had a field day in this garage. The couple believe the vandals knew their identity, even though the couple's car had Irish plates. Doors and windows at the Barfield Road building have been damaged by vandals and intruders in recent weeks. I was transfixed by the thought of the young vandals from the neighbouring council estate breaking in at night. We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti. The vandals had covered the floors in powder paint and sprayed walls with poster paint. The forester implored anyone seeing vandals damaging the tree to report it immediately to the police. Show More Sentences Sadly, one night, some vandals broke into a locked storeroom and dented a French horn and broke the mouthpiece off an antique bassoon. Thus he was soon joined by others who also petitioned to preserve the ruins before they were destroyed by pothunters and vandals. The move is to prevent vandals from causing further damage to the property. The empty house became the target for vandals, and five years ago it was badly damaged in a fire. St John's has long been a target for thieves and vandals and only three weeks ago racist slogans were daubed on the church walls. The vandals have also defaced rocks elsewhere on the moor, including popular routes for walkers and visitors to the area. A local constituency office in Keighley has been targeted by vandals who have defaced the building with graffiti. York Minster clergy expressed shock and outrage today after vandals defaced its historic walls with offensive graffiti. A distressed son is calling for greater security at a cemetery after three gravestones were desecrated by vandals. Five months after a church was desecrated by vandals, defiant parishioners have rebuilt their place of worship. Mindless vandals have desecrated the grave of a stillborn baby for the fourth time in less than five months. He was sickened when, just months later, vandals desecrated the memorial, built to commemorate villagers who fought in the First World War. The city is being given to the despoilers, speculators, land mafia and vandals. More than 40 shop windows were damaged after vandals went on a trail of destruction in Southchurch Road, Southend. And later, when it detached itself from the concrete altogether, the council blamed this on vandals. Police in Swindon are urging residents to come forward with clues to help snare vandals who sprayed racist graffiti on walls in Old Town. But now, after the club spent months renovating the site, vandals have covered the walls with graffiti. As well as the smashing of the glass hands vandals have also graffitied areas on and around the sculpture with swastikas. Relatives visiting loved ones' graves thought vandals had struck when they arrived to see scores of gravestones knocked to the ground. We are also working with the police to identify vandals and squatters, one of whom has been evicted from a ground-floor flat. Show More Sentences The roadside can be beautiful with the fresh green of the grass, until it is disfigured by some vandals as they pass. Some vandals had thrown something onto the electric doofer on the top of the train. Authorities finally admitted they couldn't seem to make a dent in the onslaught of dopers, vandals and thugs. His outburst blaming the vandals on the estate for frightening his wife to death, was a jarring moment of realism. To bring a case to court, an officer would have had to have witnessed vandals in action, he said. If it gives way on every issue that crops up, it may as well board up the Town Hall and let the vandals take over. Mr Stoff said he did not find anything inside the store, but the vandals had made a hole in its window. I don't think vandals would waste their time on her out-dated piece of junkyard scrap metal. Councillor Colin Tandy spoke about various river sites which have been completely ravaged by vandals. The vandals mainly broke off wing mirrors and damaged windscreens in the vehicles. Allotment holders are seeing red after burglaries and raids by vandals left their gardens in a mess. A new youth shelter being built in Hutton recreation area has been knocked down by vandals even before it is completed. A number of tools were stolen from sheds and the vandals uprooted vegetables and plants, throwing them around. Since its closure in October, the club building became a burnt-out wreck after being targeted by vandals and being gutted by two separate fires. A pensioner has slammed vandals who wrecked his car, cutting off his disabled wife's lifeline to the outside world. However there is a hardcore of yobs and vandals who don't give a monkeys about fox hunting. A woman who is a repeat victim of car vandals has hit out against the yobs who damage property. I'd strongly advocate bringing back the birch and use it to punish vandals. Traders in the area, off London Road, have been heavily targeted in the past by vandals and yobs. Residents have appealed for police patrols to be stepped up to rid an estate of yobs and vandals. Show More Sentences The building had been boarded up on several occasions and was a prime target for vandals. On Saturday afternoon power boats were let loose from their moorings and on Sunday vandals did the same to canoes. Mindless vandals covered his beloved car with eggs and flour and let the tyres down. In 1996 he revealed his laid-back attitude to his work after vandals smashed up a life-size model of a plane. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think the perpetrators were embittered citizens or teenage vandals. Officers believe the vandals followed a route as the targeted streets all link up with one another. Policing of the surroundings of lakes and tanks may become necessary to stop vandals and litterbugs spoiling our water bodies. Recently, town councillors in Pickering warned that vandals who had been wreaking havoc were ruining the market town for everyone. Anyone who can identify vandals responsible for these tags can call the council's 24-hour graffiti hotline. Now she doesn't even bother washing the tags from her property as the 48-year-old is resigned to the fact that the graffiti vandals will return. Nothing looks worse than a fire which appears to be a transparent pyramid tagged by graffiti vandals. Shops in Epsom are supporting the fight against vandals who blight the borough with their graffiti tags. The council takes a dim view of this type of mindless destruction and will pursue aggressively all vandals. Despite the interference of souvenir seekers and vandals, they managed to salvage most of the ship's machinery. The basin pipes were tampered with and the vandals squirted cleaning fluid all over the brand new carpets. The fire was caused by vandals who pushed a lit taper through the letterbox. It has since been targeted by vandals and has been set on fire on numerous occasions. The vandals also tried to reach 300 seats from Manchester City's former Maine Road ground which are protected by a large and heavy tarpaulin. During the early hours of Sunday vandals overturned the towering scaffolding outside the school, causing flags and poles to crash into the road. Besides churning up the meadows, the vandals have been tearing along paths and dirt tracks. Show More Sentences She said too few Anti Social Behaviour Orders had been slapped on young tearaways and vandals, despite the misery they caused residents. This is the fourth time in just about as many months that the glass has been smashed by vandals. It still looks to me like vandals because you can see clearly where they have run down the banking. Once again it has been paralysed after vandals blocked coin slots with brown mastic. Neighborhood vandals and our own children bashed our windows in with rocks. The vandals used an ax from the temple toolshed to smash a statue of Avalokitesvara. Some mindless vandals have damaged the bust of Archbishop Huddleston, unveiled in Bedford last year by Nelson Mandela. Ever since the advent of mindless vandals, buses have been a favourite target. From where I am, I see yet again more litter and destruction by mindless vandals. Why do mindless vandals frequently ruin our beautiful parks and public buildings? The fire brigade and residents deserve protection from these mindless vandals. It's a bit of a shame that mindless vandals have done this before a welcome opening. The Garavogue is a fast-flowing treacherous river and we can do without those vandals who steal the ring buoys. After all, what's to prevent vandals from deleting information or adding misinformation? They are burglars, dealers, vandals, thugs, muggers, arsonists, a menace to society. Speed camera bosses are undeterred by vandals who defaced signs warning drivers that mobile speed cameras operate in the area. These pathways make convenient boltholes for thieves and vandals to melt into. They say the increase is unjustified because the car park is a magnet for vandals and has no lighting. And earlier this month New Road Methodist Chapel in Heys Lane, Blackburn, fell victim to vandals who smashed stained glass windows. Vital funding for Settle Swimming Pool has gone up in smoke after vandals again set fire to a paper recycling trailer. Show More Sentences A singing Santa was sabotaged and a nativity scene stoned when vandals attacked a street of popular residential Christmas lights. Life-size models of two shepherds used in a church nativity scene have been decapitated by vandals. The play area was fenced off in September after vandals left the site unsafe for young children to play. The skateboard park has already been targeted by vandals who smashed glass bottles over the site. In the year that followed, however, the sculpture was wrecked three times by vandals who smashed out its specially blown coloured glass light tubes. The mindless vandals then caused extensive damage to the playing surface. Most vandals and yobs are created by irresponsible and neglectful parents. With the schools now closed for Easter holidays, fears are growing that other prominent buildings will be targeted by the mindless vandals and their spray cans. It is our intention to re-erect fencing damaged by vandals and joy riders. The substations, which distribute power to the local community, have been forced open by vandals who have damaged the equipment inside causing power cuts. The beleaguered authority is to discuss the way forward in ridding the city of unwanted homes, which are magnets to vandals, at a meeting next Monday. The reaction generally to the defacement must surely have sent a clear message to the vandals, and the last thing one need do is to pander to them. The vandals threw flowers, sprayed the garden, benches and plants with paint and stabbed holes in the sealed polytunnel used to protect flowers grown for the event. He believes vandals could easily lift any of the sections of rail, or bolts, dumped by the railside and derail a train by laying them across the tracks. It was quite nice to begin with but after a few years it became neglected and the vandals moved in, smashing down arbours, trees, the children's play area and the sports hut. With her absolute loathing of the working class, she ironically created a species of vandals whose sole purpose in life seems to be to destroy the society they live in. Last month the Evening Press backed a move by York Police to flush out graffiti vandals who daub walls and buildings in our city with their unsightly scrawl. Young vandals have scrawled their tags along Malden Road for years but the problem has got worse in recent weeks, particularly since the start of the school holidays. The country is stuck with the vandals, and vandalism is all they can commit, because that is who they are. As Andrew Sullivan wrote yesterday, a word I re-used on television last night, they are vandals. Show More Sentences Since then the centre has stood idle and fallen victim to vandals. In some cases, grocers have refused to sell food and petrol to anti-drug officials and vandals have slashed the tyres of their government vehicles. We have had an advance factory at Shandon lying idle for several years, and ultimately it was nothing more than a grandiose target for the vandals. Police fear the vandals will view clean walls as a blank canvas. Thieves, vandals, and con artists appeared, and online mafias emerged. The farm at the centre of controversial plans to build a hotel in Rossendale has been targeted by vandals who attacked a new gate and sty, allowing animals to escape. On Friday night club staff called the police after six vandals climbed onto the roofs of the buildings at Stainton Park and began to tear up felt and guttering. Looters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said. The West Cross Centre developers appear to have given a heaven-sent present to graffiti vandals living near to PC World on the Great West Road in Brentford. The problem with the trees however lies with the fact that as young saplings they are very weak and susceptible to damage by vandals or simply by traffic or passers-by. But fortunately the vandals took fright and scampered away in a hurry. The vandalism he describes includes the Purton Road Bridge being covered in graffiti, benches all smashed up and removed, trees being snapped off by vandals. As well as springing suspects in early morning raids, police have been employing DNA technology, linking vandals to their crimes by blood left at the scene. Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence. In recent weeks the graffiti vandals have defaced the memorial. Drive-by vandals hurling rocks and marbles at glass shopfronts are forcing business owners to fear for their safety and bear the cost of thousands of dollars in repairs. In May vandals went on the rampage trashing cars in a spate of incidents on the estates, including smashing windows, slashing sunroofs, tyres and scratching paintwork. The pool was attacked three times last month by vandals who caused thousands of pounds-worth of damage when they ripped out CCTV cameras and smashed windows. These include a crackdown on youths found with knives, forcing vandals to clean up the areas they destroy and setting up a hotline for members of the public to report neds. After sneaking in under the cover of night, the vandals chose these symbols to deface. Show More Sentences She'd heard about all the trouble we'd been having with vandals and thieves knocking our gear off, so she said she would feel safer if the posters were inside. Photographer Kurt Wenner captures these ruins before vandals erase them completely. A group of youths in Silsden are fed up being labelled as vandals and are working with Silsden Business Watch to find an area where they can ride their bikes. Madison homeowners are livid after vandals defaced their homes. Safety cages have been put up at windows and doors but vandals are still getting through. The vandals smashed windows and steering columns and tried to hot-wire some of the cars. A big fence will derail vandals and nosy parkers on a disused railway line, it is claimed. But vandals broke into the ground, put three wooden chairs on top of a bench in a dug-out and set fire to them. Heart-rendingly, though, callous, unthinking vandals smashed the glass and it was eventually removed. The attacks come just a week after vandals used bolt croppers to chop down swings in recreation grounds in Pantolf Place and Jubilee Street. It's been more than a year since people living in Peterlee Walk, Walsgrave, called on the city council to fix a light wrecked by vandals. The vandals appear to have used golf clubs to gouge out large divots on greens at the courses. A third tree, a massive longbeak eucalyptus in Pinal County, Arizona, died after vandals set fire to its trunk. Police said vandals smashed car windows and released the handbrakes so they would roll into walls and garden gates. In 1998 Frederick Delius's Incidental Music to Hassan was chosen by Metro to be played over its public address system as a deterrent to vandals. On the ruins of Parkside station stands a white stone memorial, once badly damaged by vandals but since restored. The statue has been a target for vandals since it was unveiled. The disfiguration of the statue by vandals resulted in a public outcry. It wasn't far enough away to think about transmatting and besides, that was no longer a viable option, what with vandals having wrecked some of the booths in the area. A watersports club is blaming boy racers and vandals for its closure. Show More Sentences Every cable box in the Yardley constituency has been treated with anti-graffiti paint, meaning the work of vandals can be easily wiped off with soapy water. Gaia ark's lame-mind vandals, mouthin' malarky, scar land, made Gaia wane. In mid-December, vandals in the Sicilian town of Catania detached a menorah set up in a public plaza which prevented the lighting of a Hanukah candle. In contrast to viruses vandals are malicious auto-executables, such as Java Applets and ActiveX controls that can potentially debilitate corporate desktops. The lads selected for the 1950s-style paratroop training are the lippiest and baddest bunch with thieves, vandals, fraudsters and ASBOs in their midst. One of our bottle stores has been damaged because vandals have jumped on the roof and smashed the door, so we now have a derelict bottle store on site. Examples from Classical Literature The vandals are detracting from what the school is trying to accomplish, Patterson said. Tagging crews have hit the Santa Clarita Valley hard in the past year and deputies have been aggressive in tracking down the vandals. A MERSEYSIDE BOWLING club has a clubhouse again after vandals burned down their 100-year-old pavilion. The oil came from a disused factory complex nearly a mile from the sea when vandals opened stopcocks. When the warriors came from Frisland with Franks and vandals. The first of the Teutonic states to fall was the kingdom of the vandals. Despite the targeting of religious institutions, experts close to the situation say neither the Serb nor the Albanian vandals are especially religious. This has been caused by vandals in the area setting off fire hydrants. The team has some high-tech tools that also help identify vandals, including a database that tracks similarities in scrawls even if a tagger changes his moniker. Go when you will, you find a gravel-train from Marseilles arriving to supply the deficiencies caused by memento-cabbaging vandals whose affections have miscarried. And what would a sub-chanter of the sixteenth century say, on beholding the beautiful yellow wash, with which our archiepiscopal vandals have desmeared their cathedral? Find more words! 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