Paint
Wall in
Wall in verb - To close or shut in by or as if by barriers.
Both terms in one sentence
- Somehow that idea seemed more horrifying than the prospect that Light was probably painting an upside down star on her wall in red paint.
Source: Fanfic / All You Need Is Love - Privacy terrorist group Vigilance communicates between its various cells via this method, as they're Properly Paranoid about government surveillance (methods include a message written on a wall in infrared paint, and a code embedded in a spam advertisement).
Source: Public Secret Message - At the end of the song, they finally build it, stick a camera on it and fly it up to his room window only to see... Joy hanging from the ceiling, having committed suicide and the words "I QUIT" written on the wall in spray-paint.
Source: Bollywood / 3 Idiots
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