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Example sentences for: ruinous

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Newspapers everywhere led on Tuesday's ruinous Turkish earthquake, where the latest tallies show more than 6,300 dead and at least 20,000 injured.
As you can see on one of the daily guided tours through Olympic Park, the result is as grandiose in design as it has been ruinous in cost, to the continuing chagrin of local taxpayers with long memories and short bank balances.
The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
Of course, this "disaggregation of content" may be ruinous for magazines like Slate.
But Genoa’s 1381 participation in the ruinous Chioggia War on the Venetian lagoon exhausted its resources.