RUINED in a Sentence

Learn RUINED 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 RUINED, such as:
1. The bad weather ruined our trip.
2. Bought her I did, and the price has ruined me.
3. They saw a column still vertical amid the ruins.
4. Many a famous pop star has been ruined by drugs.
5. And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Input your word:
Search its Sentences
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of RUINED
ruined
 n.  an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
 v.  fall into ruin
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would have ruined the Christmas parties, too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Bought her I did, and the price has ruined me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  "But she was ruined just the same," she hissed back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  The road down to the river lay red and scorching between the ruined cotton fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  No," said Scarlett, "and now most of it is ruined.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  For a swift instant there went through her memory again the horrors of her last night in Atlanta, the ruined homes that dotted the countryside, all the stories of rape and torture and murder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  When he was able to totter about the house, he turned his hands to weaving baskets of split oak and mending the furniture ruined by the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Of course, she had ruined any hope of marriage but, even in her despair, she was glad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  The bluntness of his question ruined all hopes of leading up to the matter in any circuitous and sentimental way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  Scarlett was so bewildered and infuriated at these slights that the party was utterly ruined for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Fog would shroud Dracula's castle, hiding the ruined tower beneath sheets of mist.
2  Examining the car after the accident, the owner discovered that the body had been ruined but that the chassis was unharmed.
3  A ruined Mayan city of northern Guatemala. It was the largest of the Mayan cities and may also be the oldest. Excavation and restoration of the ruins began in1956.
4  Our country, in case you are too stupid to comprehend, is being ruined by the policies of this administration.
5  The bad weather ruined our trip.
6  Huge modern hotels have ruined this once unspoilt coastline.
7  Many a famous pop star has been ruined by drugs.
8  A decade of heavy drinking and popping pills ruined her health.
9  The town is just a couple of miles from where Urquhart Castle stands in picturesque ruins beside the loch.
10  They saw a column still vertical amid the ruins.
11  Because a cursory examination of the ruins indicates the possibility of arson, we believe the insurance agency should undertake a more extensive investigation of the fire's cause.
12  The cyclone tore across the north Queensland coast and has left much of the area in ruins.
13  The enemy planned to pillage the quiet village and leave it in ruins.
14  The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle.
15  The professor of archaeology headed an expedition to the Gobi Desert in search of ancient ruins.