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Meanings of ruination in English
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Examples for "ruin"
Examples for "ruin"
1
Of course you ruin the whole effect wearin' runnin' shoes with it.
2
Only Seoul, he said, could help save the impoverished state from ruin.
3
The moment felt too good to ruin with words, so she didn't.
4
He's under constant threat of ruin through the loss of his animals.
5
Under the shadow of the crisis his character was going to ruin.
1
However, the architects of state capture have also crafted their own downfall.
2
The downfall of two peoples follows in the train of personal calamity.
3
The downfall of popery in these lands would then have been inevitable.
4
He'd started this chain of events that had led to Isabelle's downfall.
5
Like the Church, the municipalities survived the downfall of the Roman empire.
1
This vein of talk is a sure way of ruining an evening.
2
And we're tired of the great consumer circus ruining it for us.
3
Her parents accused her of ruining the house and carrying on disgracefully.
4
We just come here to talk and you're ruining my friend's skirt.
5
A. and he was in the way of ruining my young life.
1
It abides by the result of the referendum without wrecking our economy.
2
The malicious demon concealed in the ink bottle delights in wrecking love.
3
No less extraordinary is the pork-barrel tradition wrecking state and national budgets.
4
So is PMQs really wrecking Westminster's reputation and turning people off politics?
5
Kiera's wrecking teams hadn't got round to 'reclaiming' it from Rubra's control.
1
Others understand all this of an army of locusts laying waste the land.
2
Through Picardy he marched eastward burning and laying waste as before.
3
The Spaniards, Germans, and Lorrainers are in the suburbs laying waste the very gardens.
4
The monster was speedily approaching, laying waste all before it.
5
Then into Wessex went Eadmund, ravaging and laying waste there.
Usage of ruination in English
1
It would give me only the freedom to bring ruination to Africa.
2
Now they were faced with the wreckage and ruination of their efforts.
3
Both San Martino and Doberdo are destroyed beyond the limits of ruination.
4
The cost of upkeep has been the ruination of many a homeowner.
5
This matter between them had nothing to do with ruination or fortifications.
6
I squeezed my eyes shut, willing away the ruination of my evening.
7
Inez is the ruination of our young folks, and we all know it.
8
What saved font styles from ruination, says Diesel, was the desktop publishing explosion.
9
The wind gusted, pressing her dress against the ruination that was her body.
10
Poets, artists, novelists and art historians have become the high priests of ruination.
11
It's ruination for us without the gun, and that you might have remembered.
12
Other means, open and covert, were employed to insure its ruination.
13
This is not about the ruination of White people-individualor collective.
14
But for a man-ora woman-that'spushing up, it's sheer ruination!
15
Richie stood by himself, hardly able to believe how quickly his ruination had come.
16
You can't think of anyone else whose day needs ruination.
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