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Example sentences for: ruin

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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.
They don't understand that they've lost that fight and that Bush is willing to repudiate the fight and everyone in it--including them--in order to ruin Gore's strategy and beat him.
Blumenthal's lawsuit may well ruin Drudge and threaten Internet free speech.
Misalignment of the edges can ruin many pattern pieces and the final garments for which they were intended.
Rockefeller hired one of the first corporate flacks to counteract the blistering hostility generated by the muckraking journalist Ida Minerva Tarbell, who laid out in detail how Standard conspired to help its allies and ruin its competitors.