(n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.
(3) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
(4) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
(5) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(6) And just to avoid confusion, the word GREY is also my current graffiti tag.
(7) "If you stand in the street, you face problems; because of this I started a new style of graffiti.
(8) We love you.” Another starts: “Dear Polish friends, we wanted to let you know how very sorry we are to hear about the abusive messages graffitied on to your building.
(9) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(10) Anger towards the government is also apparent in political graffiti , popping up around Yerevan.
(11) Qassem is one of a small band of graffiti artists in the Afghan capital who, encouraged by a group of western "art activists", are set on bringing tagging, wall-painting and graphic stencils to public spaces across the city.
(12) Photograph: Luana Kaderabek Saysell was confronted by some of his harshest critics, including several convicted artists, during a graffiti conference on the South Bank in London earlier this month.
(13) It was our moment to make our point by subverting the message using the show itself.” In an early meeting with the production team, they were, the statement claims, handed images of “pro-Assad graffiti – apparently natural in a Syrian refugee camp”.
(14) The mission is awaiting a restoration specialist to arrive from Britain with the historically appropriate paints for the 19th-century decor to blot out the graffiti.
(15) The longest stretch can be found at the Eastside Gallery in Friedrichshain, though the paintings and graffiti here were added as recently as 2009.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detective Constable Colin Saysell talks at the graffiti sessions at London’s South Bank Centre.
(17) There's a similar double-standard within graffiti art.
(18) · He edited American Graffiti, The Conversation, The Godfather parts I to III, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley and many more.
(19) They arrived in a black Camaro with Dare (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) scrawled on its side in blazing faux graffiti, one officer explaining how his department had seized it from a drug dealer.
(20) Eighteen months ago the group sprayed designs inspired by the British graffiti artist Banksy on walls of ostentatious new houses believed to have been built with the profits of the £3bn a year Afghan drug trade.
Mural
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.
(a.) Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The circle rate correlated with the extent of mural invasion.
(2) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
(3) Several cases of sarcoma-like mural nodules in ovarian mucinous tumors have been described previously, but only two well-documented cases of true sarcoma were reported.
(4) However, after 24 h of PABC morphologic changes occurred in the heart and lungs, consisting of valvular and mural thrombi and hemorrhage.
(5) The only thing certain is that the effects of the referendum will be big.” Steven Morris Northern Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest A loyalist paramilitary mural in Belfast.
(6) Commercialised … one of the new murals commissioned by the Legacy List, by Dutch collective Graphic Surgery.
(7) In an attempt to diagnose ventricular mural thrombi complicating acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 80 patients have been given 100 muCi 125I-labelled fibrinogen after admission to a CCU.
(8) Combined examinations provided reliable information on the extent of aneurysm, the relationship of renal and common iliac arteries, mural thrombi, patency of distal arteries and the relationship with surrounding organs, and were superior to that provided by aortography alone.
(9) In nine specimens removed 5 days to 16 months after embolization therapy, a series of pathologic changes was seen, including patchy mural angionecrosis (adjacent to bucrylate fragments) up to six weeks after embolization, the presence of bucrylate in vessel walls and fibromuscular intimal cushions, and the occurrence (after several months) of entirely extravascular bucrylate.
(10) An initial alveolar or mural pattern might change to a mixed pattern.
(11) Gastro-intestinal mural infiltration can be diagnosed by ultra sound from a typical pattern of echos.
(12) shortly after implantation, giant cell transformation starts at the abembryonic pole of the blastocyst, spreading over the mural trophoblast; 1 day later, the first ectoplacental giant cells appear at the base of the fast growing ectoplacental cone (derived from the polar trophoblast).
(13) For the example, the intra- and extra-mural informations of the GI tract can be known through this technique.
(14) We studied five cystic ovarian mucinous tumors with spindle cell mural nodules to define their histologic and immunohistochemical properties.
(15) In Gaza City, tens of thousands crammed into an area where a huge stage was set up, decorated with a mural depicting Shalit's capture in a June 2006 raid on an army base near the Gaza border.
(16) Complete removal of the mural tumor without excision of the cyst is the goal of operation.
(17) Marked mural thinning in the injured zone was present in all three groups but was most frequent in the BAPN-treated animals.
(18) Twelve patients sustained unilateral vertebral artery thrombosis, seven patients had vertebral AV fistulae (three jugular vein, four vertebral vein) and four patients sustained mural injury without thrombosis.
(19) Calcification of the left atrium is frequently associated with history of rheumatic fever, longstanding congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, mural thrombus and embolization.
(20) Both ventricles were hypokinetic, and bilateral mural thrombi were demonstrated; these were the presumed source of the embolic phenomena.