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Example sentences for: ruining

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This horror, ruining Arnold's lovely rhythm, actually appears in that otherwise admirable book, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations .
Late the following year an immense hurricane sent a tidal wave over Hog Island (today Paradise Island), smashing Nassau’s flimsy buildings and ruining crops.
A letter to his editor at Grove Press: "I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontaneous language if I let editors take my sentences, which are my phrases that I separate by dashes when I 'draw a breath,' each of which pours out to the tune of the whole story its own rhythmic yawp of expostulation, & riddle them with commas, cut them in half, in threes, in fours, ruining the swing ...
In the end, it seems, Mother Nature is just another welfare mom, ruining homes and taking billions of tax dollars to do it.
A profile of 19 th -century illustrator Thomas Nast credits him with popularizing Santa Claus, electing Ulysses Grant, and ruining William "Boss" Tweed.