RUIN in a Sentence

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For RUIN, below is one of 250 sentences:
When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ruin
 v.  fall or tumble down; destroy; devastate; exterminate
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
3  A monumental aspect often has its birth in ruin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
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
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...
7  The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
8  He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better shelter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
9  He reached the ruin all out of breath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
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
11  Marius had learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate inn-keeper.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
12  A phenomenon whence arises ruin and new births.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET
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...
15  When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
16  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.
17  The cyclone tore across the north Queensland coast and has left much of the area in ruins.
18  The enemy planned to pillage the quiet village and leave it in ruins.
19  The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle.
20  The professor of archaeology headed an expedition to the Gobi Desert in search of ancient ruins.
21  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.
22  Archaeologists debated the significance of the artifact discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion.
23  The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
24  The town lay in ruins after years of bombing.
25  Twenty years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins.
26  Careful examination of the ruins revealed new evidence.
27  The city lay in ruins after the earthquake.
28  The abundance of money ruins youth.
29  The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruins from my memory.
30  New Age dreamers, alternative lifestyle gurus and curious onlookers from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak'tun - a period of around 400 years - in the Maya Long Calendar.