Example sentences for: ruins

How can you use “ruins” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They had sized each other up at the start, in the ruins of Troy.

  • Relief teams complain that the Turkish government is encouraging them to leave, even though a 4-year-old was rescued from the rubble yesterday and survivors have been uncovered in ruins two weeks after previous quakes.

  • On either side lie the ruins of sepulchres of 20 generations of patrician families.

  • For nearly 900 years, it was left in ruins, and not until 1910 did the slow work of excavation begin.

  • Beside the entrance to the Alcazaba are the partially excavated ruins of a Roman theater, the only visible remains of the ancient city.


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