RUINED in a Sentence

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If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUINED
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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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Bought her I did, and the price has ruined me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  "But she was ruined just the same," she hissed back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  No," said Scarlett, "and now most of it is ruined.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
16  Archaeologists debated the significance of the artifact discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion.
17  The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
18  The town lay in ruins after years of bombing.
19  Twenty years of civil strife have left the country's economy in ruins.
20  Careful examination of the ruins revealed new evidence.
21  The city lay in ruins after the earthquake.
22  The abundance of money ruins youth.
23  The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruins from my memory.
24  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.
25  We've created a beautiful new house from an old ruin.
26  Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason.
27  The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
28  The country might plunge into the abyss of economic ruin.
29  Do n't let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.
30  All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing - the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.