ruin in a sentence

ruin meaning:

n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

n.) complete destruction or decay.

v.) to cause to fall to pieces and decay;to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy;

v.)to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.

ruin sentence:

The war brought ruin to the country.

The forests in the region are facing ruin.

The rain and flood ruined the crops.

Flooding caused the ruin of this ancient civilization.

We found our car in ruins after the hurricane.

The bad publicity ruined her singing career.

The econic crisis in the country led to the company’s ruin.

Drinking was his ruin.

They let the palace fall into ruin.

It was gambling that brought about his ruin.

We’ve created a beautiful new house from an old ruin.

You will ruin your health if you drink without measure.

If the medicine is abused, people can ruin their health.

The country might plunge into the abyss of economic ruin.

Constant indulgence in bad habits brought about his ruin.

We saw the ruins of the church.

Thousands of bats had colonized the ruins.

The town lay in ruins after years of bombing.

They found a mysterious city in ruins in the desert.

Careful examination of the ruins revealed new evidence.

The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.

Some students were entombed in the ruins of the school house.

The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.

The relics were discovered in a lead box in the ruins of an abbey.

Although the government refuses to admit it, its economic policy is in ruins.

Anthropologists have found the ruins of an ancient civilization under the city.

For centuries hieroglyphic word pictures painted on Egyptian ruins were a mystery.

The ancient temple ruined in the war will be reconstructed soon.

The villagers pilfered stones from ancient ruined cities to build their houses.

We glimpsed the ruined abbey from the windows of the train.

We will never forget the day the typhoon ruined the crops.

She poured water all over my painting, and ruined it.

He pulled the flowers about until he ruined them all.

The whole supermarket was ruined in a great fire.

The crops were ruined by the late frost.

This illness has ruined my life.

Television has ruined the art of conversation.

A decade of heavy drinking and popping pills ruined her health.

Sectarian politics are ruining the country’s economy.

My wife was ruining her health through worry.

The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.

In 1944, German tanks and soldiers retreated from Latvia, leaving countless buildings in total ruin.

After the Reformation the monasteries were largely destroyed or fell into ruin.

Any kind of sharp practice or dishonest dealing will infallibly ruin his career.



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