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Example sentences for: ruins

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I stumbled through the dust and the ruins to find Sixpence, dazed but miraculously unscathed, sitting amidst the debris.
Macau’s most memorable monument is the Baroque façade of the ruins of São Paulo, the only remains of a beautiful 17th-century Jesuit church.
Several boat tours explore the bay for close-up sightings of beluga whale and cruise over to the ruins of Fort Prince of Wales on a promontory at the mouth of the Churchill River.
On a nearby hilltop, the atmospheric ruins Castelo dos Mouros (Moors’ Castle) date from the eighth and ninth centuries.
a land of ruins," but recommended that just as the Turkish government uses the latest techniques to protect monuments such as the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul from seismic turbulence, so should it "apply the same rigorous standards to its more mundane buildings for it is upon them and their inhabitants that its future depends."