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Example sentences for: ruin
How can you use “ruin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
This reassurance--that somehow things will be all right, that there is a lot of ruin in a man, as well as in a nation, to paraphrase his idol, Adam Smith--has become part of me, and I can still summon it up when I am terrified because of a huge quarterly tax payment due or a bad day on the market.
Next up--according to an exceedingly complex timetable that is pieced together with help from future-specific "time texts" such as the Old Testament's Book of Daniel--is the Tribulation, a seven year period when the Antichrist will bring wrack and ruin to this world, before God dishes out his Wrath and Christ returns to fight the Battle of Armageddon.
Under the headline "The Blind Man and the Paralytic," an editorial in the Paris daily Libération called Yeltsin "a man old before his time, diminished by sickness and by his obsession with power, who fails in everything he does and who is leading his country to ruin."
And on this perfectly nice and liberal-minded businessman, Roth, in his malicious rage, has bestowed a monster of a daughter, a stuttering left-wing bomb thrower and murderous lunatic destined to ruin her daddy's family and his life--just to show what comes of so much cheer and post-ethnic American optimism.
For example: kith and kin, wrack and ruin ; in German: mit Kind und Kegel, drauf und dran ; in French: sain et sauf . Alongside such fixed combinations, which seem to adhere to their own rhythmic and phonetic rules, are the playful, nonsensical, purely rhythmical and melodious formulations, which distinctly recall the ancient incantatory cantillations characteristic of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman and latterday hocus pocus.
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