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Meanings of ruined in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sunk"
Examples for "sunk"
1
The control group exhibited a typical sunk cost effect in our task.
2
Political turmoil had sunk consumers confidence to a 12-month low in April.
3
She has sunk the case, in the water or in the quicksand.
4
The reality of what had happened hadn't really sunk in until now.
5
More than a year later, and it still hasn't really sunk in.
1
Otherwise we risk all the good work to protect people being undone.
2
Words spoken in anger have strong power and they cannot be undone.
3
We may have to wait for another crisis to see it undone.
4
Jeryl knew, however, that there was still much damage to be undone.
5
It wasn't the first time he's finished what others have left undone.
1
Good night, Doctor, and thank you for all you've done for me.
2
Methods: A prospective screening of iSTBI patients was done for two years.
3
She couldn't imagine living as Sarah had done for the past year.
4
This view is borne out by research done for the music business.
5
Materials and methods: This online survey has been done for 10 days.
1
Others thought that they were a washed-up remnant of the great flood.
2
Not far away, several water birds were seen scavenging among washed-up dead fish.
3
We just learnt this morning that a washed-up body was discovered in Centurion.
4
Dental records confirmed that the washed-up corpse was indeed Michael Fromley.
5
Many have found themselves unfairly washed-up before 30 has begun to properly loom.
Usage of ruined in English
1
Any new political crises could delay efforts to rebuild Zimbabwe's ruined economy.
2
These new days of growing peace ruined that, required more careful hunting.
3
Israel paused a moment, and looked into one of the ruined houses.
4
Sucking at his pipe; the Sergeant glowered moodily down the ruined street.
5
Someone ruined a very good point with a badly made final stroke.
6
Only the deity of the ruined temple remains unworshipped in deathless neglect.
7
We need not both be ruined in the eyes of the community.
8
The last bit ruined most of the purpose Doc had in mind.
9
She was back again in the long passage of the ruined summer-house.
10
In the mean while, however, the children of the victims were ruined.
11
Still more astonishing appeared the changes in the so lately ruined courtyard.
12
France has suffered in her ravaged fields and in her ruined villages.
13
The war which was ravaging Vervignole also ruined the Church in Trinqueballe.
14
He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II.
15
The war with England ruined the navy and the commerce of Spain.
16
A group of young men watched me from inside a ruined house.
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Ruined across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Australia
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