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Sentence Examples A welter of ancient corridors in a ruin gives way to a clear space, contained within a circle of weathered obelisks. The law was originally designed to protect the merchant navy from financial ruin during wartime. What might seem like a quick fix can actually ruin that very expensive, irreplaceable motor. Shame he had to ruin it all by blubbing like a jessie but you can't have everything. We're blowing all this money to build houses and ruin habitat with so-called beach renourishment and jetties, groins and seawalls. Terrorist bombings ruin a building, many lives and inflict trauma on the witnesses. Six local organisations say the scheme will ruin leafy cycle and walkways along the East Lancashire Road and cause traffic chaos. No bulky helmet to lug around or uncomfortable shell to ruin your hairstyle. Central banks that have acquiesced in, or abetted, high inflation are practicing a form of financial corruption that eventually leads to financial ruin. The Big bertha could fire a shell over almost eight miles that could reduce a fort to a smoking ruin. A seed like that would ruin the juiciest, sweetest tasting watermelon. Taunton Castle had fallen into ruin by 1600 but it was repaired during the Civil War. Conflicts with the Danes in 876 left the river Tyne and its settlements in ruin. By crossing the wild and cultivated maizes, researchers created resistant varieties, saving thousands of farmers from ruin. Hadrian's Wall fell into ruin and over the centuries the stone was reused in other local buildings. Bonneville was then briefly jailed and his presses were confiscated, which meant financial ruin. This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid. The French had shewn themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. She began to call on him at home, sometimes dressed in disguise as a pageboy, at a time when such an act could ruin both of them socially. We had a seven hours' ride on the delouls, leaving the caravan to follow, to the large ruin of Abou Maria. Show More Sentences The Micawber rules of debt as ruin oppressed ministers as much as individuals. The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin. After sustaining severe damage from Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the studio is now a ruin. After World War II the economy of the UK was in a state of ruin, and continued to suffer relative economic decline in the following decades. Another neotard babbling incoherently in a desperate attempt to blame Bush economic ruin on anyone but Bush. Caisteal Maol, built in the late 15th century near Kyleakin and once a seat of Clan MacKinnon, is another ruin. After the Reformation, the castle passed to several owners, who could not maintain its structure and the building deteriorated into a ruin. Jug bitten was all you were. You had enough blue ruin to make any man stagger. The magnificent setting of the ruin and the Abbey's layout can still be viewed. One such site is the ruin of the Sassanian era Azargoshasb Fire Temple in Iran's Azarbaijan Province. Most of the merchant and business class left, resulting in the town's decay and ruin. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life. This, though it failed at present, yet afterward obtained, and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth. I have some respect for the views of the finishippers, as they realize that a romance would ruin the show, so they'll put it off till the end. But, Sir, hon. members of the government, led by that old knight of blue ruin, have done something infinitely worse than cry blue ruin. This had the potential to ruin the Allied deceptions Fortitude North and Fortitude South. Various construction materials were taken from the ruin to build this monastery. Ardito Barletta inherited a country in economic ruin and hugely indebted to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Even cold weather makes potatoes more susceptible to bruising and possibly later rotting, which can quickly ruin a large stored crop. The only good thing about Solitaire is being able to ruin it with a hex editor so nobody else can play it. Show More Sentences It always ends in the ruin of many small capitalists, whose capitals partly pass into the hands of their conquerors, partly vanish. It was necessary for them to rediscover fire, to relearn the basic laws of economics and rebuild civilization out of the ashes of ruin. Many are now being used as farm buildings, while others were abandoned and fell into ruin. Without concerted intervention, the ruffe have the potential to ruin Lake Superior. Large monastic churches fell into ruin after their institutions were dissolved, although fragments of Waverley Abbey and Newark Priory survive. We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons. A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. The upright blocks or stelas are among the most curious parts of the present ruin. No, you are going to ruin any chance you have and give us a bad name. I've been a bit whingy, but that's because I don't want to ruin this jewel box I've been offered. Moreover, all this ruin was brought upon the Romans by a woman, a fact which in itself caused them the greatest shame. A smaller lighthouse at Dover, England also exists as a ruin about half the height of the original. In his prose poem, Lessness, Beckett incantates a haunting description of total ruin. Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. In the populated areas, both factions had much to lose by the ruin of the country and sought quick resolution of the conflict by pitched battle. Perhaps no classical Roman ruin evokes the excesses of the late Empire like the Colosseum. The system of smuggling finished products into the continent undermined French efforts to ruin the British economy by cutting off markets. I know that whoso apeth a stronger than he, wearieth himself and haply cometh to ruin. He rages and screams that we are on the way to ruin the whole campaign. There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin. Show More Sentences It was very noble, very distingue, to ruin one's self without knowing how! Make sure none of your men go off half-cocked and ruin this operation. When Becket tried to leave the country without permission, Henry tried to ruin him by filing legal cases relating to Becket's previous tenure as chancellor. Following Wolsey's downfall, Henry took full control of his government, although at court numerous complex factions continued to try to ruin and destroy each other. When he determined that a long defensive war would ruin his army, Wellesley decided to act boldly to defeat the numerically larger force of the Maratha Empire. Still embittered by the perceived betrayal, Paine tried to ruin Washington's reputation by calling him a treacherous man unworthy of his fame as a military and political hero. Fearing that exposure of her adultery would ruin her public image, it was ultimately agreed that Blyton would instead file for divorce against Pollock. The ruin of the tower now lies within the walls of the dockyard. There is no data between soundings or between sounding lines to guarantee that there is not a hazard such as a wreck or a coral head waiting there to ruin a sailor's day. There are chance anfractuosities of ruin in the upper portions of the Coliseum which offer a very fair imitation of the rugged face of an alpine cliff. The Pompeii Lakshmi ivory statuette was found in the ruin of Pompeii. For Shen Buhai, correct or perverse words will order or ruin the state. Examples from Classical Literature Hector, the bulwark of Troy, had fallen, and the ruin of the city was at hand. These were adroit, and posed as her friends while plotting the ruin of both. It is easier to ruin a kingdom and aggrandise one's own pride and prejudices than to set up a greengrocer's stall. Betty Lamb found the ambry niche in the wall of the ruin at the side of the place where the altar had been. After the break up of the empire of Rum, Konia became a secondary city of the amirate of Karamania and in part fell to ruin. Napoleon accused Hamburg of Anglomania, and by ruining her he thought to ruin England. This spirit of imitation, sir, this spirit of mimicry and apery will be the ruin of our country. Their disunion, the consequence of their avidity, saved it from ruin, but not from pillage. Haven't we eyes to see this ruin that's coming, and minds to baffle it with? You have barely finished your experiments, and now you're planning my ruin. For that we must go to the Castle ruin that crowns Lewes as with a battlement. By this means the great man, still despised as a Boston bean-eater, was able to bring his adversary to ruin. Will you save your brother from the scaffold, and yourself from beggary and ruin? With a cry the girl sprang back, crushing the birchbark case with its red flower into shapeless ruin. They moved on, little dreaming of the ruin and blight they had left behind them. The knowing Kids and dashing Swells are for a drap of blue ruin, to keep all things in good twig. Nor could they escape the Fish-wife without becoming participators in the half pint of blue ruin. He wishes he was back here at blue ruin, where a man can go out doors for half an hour without getting ostracized by the elements. If the observance of brahmacharya should mean the ruin of the world, why should we regret it? Get up before dawn, work like a slave, go out in the fields, ruin your hands with callouses. Show More Sentences To the south of the caracol stands a ruin of remarkable beauty and in wonderful preservation. If we could defeat them, we should save your chateaux and farms from fire and ruin. It is a sort of clearing-house for the sale of souls and the ruin of women's morals. The loud crash of the ruin added fuel to the rage of the berserker. Well, since rhyming's been my ruin, let me rhyme to the bitter end. Since he was Lord of Liang a thousand years have flown, And of the towers he builded yon ruin stands alone. Tape often proves a halter, and there be's no ruin like blue ruin! Now then, Meg, clear away, and let's have the blue ruin and hot water. A sculptor was set to work to carve a new one from the ruin. Straight and white it showed to the acclivity by the Roman ruin. The sin of Adam and Eve involved the ruin of their posterity. Despite every effort being made to contact the owner, the premises are being left to go to rack and ruin. It is possible that the ruin of Carchemish dates from the battle. The advancement of Mordecai was the natural result of Haman's ruin. Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning? I brought half this ruin on this family, with my all-fired improvements. And out of all the rack and ruin rose the form of the nascent Oligarchy, imperturbable, indifferent, and sure. But the ruin of Amida was the safety of the Roman provinces. She did not linger there, but with a step that was hurried and agitated, she crossed the distance that divided her cabin from the ruin. We have seen above how necessary it is for a prince to have his foundations well laid, otherwise it follows of necessity he will go to ruin. Show More Sentences The annulment of the sale would bring him face to face with ruin. All is gone to ruin since my blindness, and especially since Angelique left me for the churchyard, never to come back. As I followed him, I noted that in spite of rack and ruin a rough order obtained. And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness? The bulge is now a heap and ruin of burnt and tumbled mud and chalk. It is fast falling into ruin since it was abandoned as a barrack. You make the alternatives certain ruin and possible salvation. It's a shame because it's right on our doorstep but it's going to rack and ruin. We passed along the Arabian coast of Mahrah and Hadramaut, for a distance of six miles, its undulating line of mountains being occasionally relieved by some ancient ruin. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ruin? Words that rhyme with ruin What is the past tense of ruin? What is the plural of ruin? What is the adverb for ruin? What is the adjective for ruin? What is the noun for ruin? Translations for ruin Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Rui Ruhr rugulose rugs rugrats rugosity Ruin ruination ruined ruing ruining ruinous 4-letter Words Starting With r ru rui