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Example sentences for: ruins

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Moreover, these ventures left France’s once-thriving economy in ruins.
The LAT and NYT report that during the high-ranking U.N. delegation's visit to East Timor no shots were heard, but the officials could see that the city was in ruins.
The Danube forms a natural boundary; the bridge that up until World War I linked the two countries was symbolically left in ruins.
picture-restorer, one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures
Hundreds of thousands of laborers were conscripted over the centuries to extend and repair the Great Wall, and many of them lie buried in its ruins.