Words similar to ruin

Example sentences for: ruin

How can you use “ruin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

2) The bill will expose their clients to financial ruin.
Through all his trials, darkness had always been his strength, an obsidian girder holding him to the path; now it stood to crush him and, perhaps not coincidentally, the entire Republican ticket, which his opponent's ever-clever propagandists had labeled as "Dole-Gingrich," as if he and the pumpkin-headed speaker had conspired like Jesuits to ruin the nation.
Their low white-washed houses and cobbled streets were long ago enclosed by walls to keep the Spanish out — a purpose that failed in 1762, when a force of French and Spanish troops blew up the castle, leaving it a fairly uninspiring ruin.
A letter I collected from the poste restante contained a dossier about a précis of a roman à clef she had written, showing she was au fait with my manoeuvres in Iran which, if published, would ruin me.
But with the Spanish-American War, he says, the policy was junked, and since then we've been rushing headlong into ruin.