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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:

She can't forgive herself for a tragic accident on her property, and in ways that I'm still trying to sort out, she helps to bring about her own--and her family's--near 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.
The church remains deliberately preserved as an atmospheric ruin.
So much for those people who said that it would ruin my career."
Misalignment of the edges can ruin many pattern pieces and the final garments for which they were intended.