RUIN in a Sentence
Learn RUIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
250 example sentences for RUIN, such as:
1. He rushed wildly from the ruin.
2. Distance doesn't ruin a relationship.
3. He reached the ruin all out of breath.
4. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones.
5. A phenomenon whence arises ruin and new births.
2. Distance doesn't ruin a relationship.
3. He reached the ruin all out of breath.
4. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones.
5. A phenomenon whence arises ruin and new births.
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Meanings and Examples of RUIN
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ruin
n. an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
v. fall into ruin
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.
2 The lower town, in which he lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys.
3 A monumental aspect often has its birth in ruin.
4 One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited.
5 Madeleine's vast workshops were shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
6 Such confidence is the ruin of thrones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
7 The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.
8 He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better shelter.
9 He reached the ruin all out of breath.
10 He rushed wildly from the ruin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
11 Marius had learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate inn-keeper.
12 A phenomenon whence arises ruin and new births.
13 After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not communicate life.
14 That which was Adam's ruin might prove Gavroche's salvation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
15 When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin.
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1 We've created a beautiful new house from an old ruin.
2 Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason.
3 The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
4 The country might plunge into the abyss of economic ruin.
5 Do n't let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.
6 All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing - the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
7 You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
8 Distance doesn't ruin a relationship.
9 I want to insure my residence, or any accident may ruin the life of family.
10 Our economy would precipitate into complete ruin if what the banker says is true.
11 We see him gradually ruin himself for a long existing rumor of his property.
12 His aunt wept over him and asked him how he could go and break her old heart so; and finally told him to go on, and ruin himself and bring her gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, for it was no use for her to try any more.
13 Thanks to them a country that was on the brink of ruin is now stabilizing and showing signs of moving forward.
14 The town is just a couple of miles from where Urquhart Castle stands in picturesque ruins beside the loch.
15 They saw a column still vertical amid the ruins.