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Example sentences for: ruin

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But with the Spanish-American War, he says, the policy was junked, and since then we've been rushing headlong into ruin.
Witnessing that kind of progression, the field giving way to the skeletal, empty, immaculate ruin, is the common experience of the archaeologist, but not of the urbanologist.
Further along at Askanischer Platz is the sad but graceful arcaded ruin of Anhalter Bahnhof.
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.
Chilean novelist Isabel Allende writes that even if Augusto Pinochet is never tried in Spain, justice has finally been done to the former dictator: The European detention has caused "Pinochet's moral ruin.