Use ruined in a sentence
Sentences starting with ruined
- Ruined Pompeii is in good condition compared to Sebastopol. [5]
- Ruined everything! [5]
Sentences ending with ruined
- Deal not hardly with me, sir, else am I ruined. [5]
- Then some of them rallied, but before the partial recovery hundreds of men had been ruined. [4]
- It is I that am ruined! [11]
- If thou dost still cherish Claridge Pasha, wilt thou see him ruined? [11]
- Some operators were ruined. [4]
- If you had Richmond invested to-day you would not be able to take it in twenty days; meanwhile your communications, and with them your army, would be ruined. [7]
- Of course the price of the stock at once fell to nothing, and the tragedian was ruined. [5]
- Two poor but precious farms by the roadside were ruined. [5]
- Everett is fond of you, but if he espouses your cause, on the vestry, we shall be ruined. [9]
- What a lot of men he's ruined! [2]
Short sentences using ruined
- I have ruined your life. [9]
- I am a ruined man. [5]
- P'r'aps that's what ruined him. [11]
- I was a ruined gambler. [5]
- One of them is ruined. [9]
- We've nothing, we've been ruined. [2]
- They are all about ruined. [5]
- He's utterly ruined. [9]
- You are ruined. [11]
- Dilworthy ruined. [5]
Sentences containing ruined two or more times
- Oh, you fop, you fool, you have ruined my brother, you have ruined my life, and I hate and despise you for a cold-blooded, selfish coward! [11]
- My friend that was--I call him my friend, though he ruined me and ruined others,--didn't mean to, but he did just the same,--he came to a bad end. [11]
- It was plain that the Russian nest was ruined and destroyed, but in place of the Russian order of life that had been destroyed, Pierre unconsciously felt that a quite different, firm, French order had been established over this ruined nest. [2]
- We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it; and I presume I shall make a garden next year that will be as popular as possible. [4]
- He knew the forgotten story of James Clifton Welldon, the specialist, turned gambler, who had almost ruined his own brother--the father of Dan and Diana--at cards and dice, and had then ruined himself and disappeared. [11]
- Money has been at the bottom of it all,--it ruined my brother, and it has ruined me. [9]
More example sentences with the word ruined in them
- You've almost ruined yourself for me. [13]
- You lived for yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness when you began living for others. [2]
- You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
- Was that how you ruined the Rev. [11]
- With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
- Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
- I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
- His own father, whom he has ruined, comes up here and defends him. [9]
- She and all who have a voice in the management of court affairs look first at the roof and then seek anything to raise and support it, though it should be corpses, ruined lives, and broken hearts. [10]
- And the man who had ruined her life and had poisoned her true spirit was come back broken and battered. [11]
- For a change, when you wanted one, you could stroll to the Castle, and burrow among its dungeons, or climb about its ruined towers, or visit its interior shows--the great Heidelberg Tun, for instance. [5]
- She understood that when speaking of "trash" he referred not only to Mademoiselle Bourienne, the cause of her misery, but also to the man who had ruined his own happiness. [2]
- We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. [2]
- That is, after we've ruined you at the club. [9]
- The ladies' dresses were constantly getting ruined, nevertheless protests and supplications went for nothing. [5]
- If we die, we die clinging to our tattered rights, and our blood alone shall tell the mournful tale of a murdered daughter and a ruined father. [5]
- I've ruined you--it was through me you lost all. [13]
- Beyond and below was the spring-house, and there was the place where the brook dived under the ruined wall,--where Dorothy had wound into her hair the lilies of the valley before she sailed for London. [9]
- In Keeley's Gulch was the man who could tell him, the man who had ruined his home and his life. [11]
- But no foe was seen or heard, and the Hebrews found some tokens of the thirst for vengeance of the sons of the wilderness in their ruined houses, the superb palm-trees felled, and little gardens destroyed. [10]
- The stage scenery was ruined, trap-doors were so swollen that they wouldn't work for a week afterward, the fine costumes were spoiled, and no end of minor damages were done by that remarkable storm. [5]
- I used to walk down there and sit on the stones of the ruined mill; or climb to the crests on the far side of the pond to gaze for hours westward where the green billows of the Alleghenies lost themselves in the haze. [9]
- You brought misery upon an old man, and ruined his life and broke his heart. [5]
- Soon we came upon a row of open graves, cut in the solid rock--(for a while one of them served Socrates for a prison)--we passed around the shoulder of the hill, and the citadel, in all its ruined magnificence, burst upon us! [5]
- They ruined an uncommon good old cross-cut saw for me, and broke the saw-buck, too, but I let it pass. [5]
- One of the two standing in the door of the ruined chapel on the Ecrehos had the nature of those who buy but once and pay the price but once; the other was of those who keep open accounts in the markets of life. [11]
- Westward, the direction toward which his eyes were turned, lay the necropolis and the ruined strangers' quarter. [10]
- The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. [2]
- At noon we took a swim in the Sea of Galilee--a blessed privilege in this roasting climate--and then lunched under a neglected old fig-tree at the fountain they call Ain-et-Tin, a hundred yards from ruined Capernaum. [5]
- Your life is too good to be ruined by rashness. [11]
- If the Caliban told Rudyard what he knew, there could be but one end to it all; and Jasmine's life, if not ruined, must ever be, even at the best, lived under the cover of magnanimity and compassion. [11]
- The driver pointed to one of these ancient fortresses, and said, (I translate): "Do you see that great iron hook that projects from the wall just under the highest window in the ruined tower? [5]
- I must submit to have the hated foe, whose blinding was the sole pleasure in my ruined life, look me in the face with insolent joy. [10]
- I like better to go to a little garden in the village of Meta, under a sunny precipice of rocks overhung by the ruined convent of Camaldoli. [4]
- Pilgrims, always prone to find prophecies in the Bible, and often where none exist, speak cheerfully and complacently of poor, ruined Ephesus as the victim of prophecy. [5]
- Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle. [2]
- But because of this particular combination my happiness was ruined, and Nancy's! [9]
- In consequence of this "a walk in the fresh air" always suggested to his mind, damp clothes, wet feet, ruined shoes, a cold in the head, and an attack of indigestion--the result of his sister's greasy cooking. [10]
- I trembled to think of the ruined purses this day's performances might result in. [5]
- The West said, 'There was a good man ruined by a woman. [11]
- Then there is the well-known example of the honest clerk on a small salary who was ruined by the gift of a repeating watch--an expensive timepiece that required at least ten thousand a year to sustain it: he is now in Canada. [4]
- Everybody was celebrating the victory, everything was bubbling with life in the ruined but reviving city. [2]
- Away off, across the undulating Plain of Attica, could be seen a little square-topped hill with a something on it, which our glasses soon discovered to be the ruined edifices of the citadel of the Athenians, and most prominent among them loomed the venerable Parthenon. [5]
- One may read the Scriptures and believe, but he can not go and stand yonder in the ruined theatre and in imagination people it again with the vanished multitudes who mobbed Paul's comrades there and shouted, with one voice, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians! [5]
- The Emperor received the honors due to Zeus and his fiat had ruined the happiness of a contented home as completely as the thunderbolt wielded by the Father of the gods could have done. [10]
- We can't take the Gospel literally, or we should all be ruined in a day, and swamp everybody else. [9]
- Dolokhov stood at the gate of the ruined house, letting a crowd of disarmed Frenchmen pass by. [2]
- Gratitude knocked at the door of her heart but it was instantly met by bitter defiance; what was one hour of happiness in the balance against a ruined lifetime? [10]
- Toward the end the darkness lifted from Sally's ruined mind for a moment, and he said: "Vast wealth, acquired by sudden and unwholesome means, is a snare. [5]
- I lived like that, I lived for myself and ruined my life. [2]
- Indeed, it seemed that these ruined cliffs were but awaiting a breath of wind to collapse and come tumbling down. [13]
- Do you know that it was he who so shamelessly ruined the domestic peace of the centurion? [10]
- Among the gentlemen that I have known, few, if any, were ruined by drinking. [6]
- To the fact that he had ruined, by sheer over-righteousness, the last years of the sunny life of Sarah Austen he had been oblivious--until to-day. [9]
- He realized with sudden completeness that a terrible change bad come in his life, that a cyclone had ruined the face of his created world. [11]
- The first was stern, imperious, reproachful.--Shame for those that took him in and made him, a ruined reputation, a spoiled tradition: he had been but a heathen after all! [11]
- A figure crept stealthily through a break in the other end of the ruined building, now, but they did not notice it. [5]
- He was still standing on the top of the ruined tower, and raised his arms and face toward heaven. [10]
- Make this sacred spot an arena, and if you succeed in making an end of me I will thank you, for what made life worth having to me, you have already ruined whether or no. [10]
- She stood like some Diana of a ruined temple looking out into the staring day. [11]
- Through the streets soldiers in various uniforms walked or ran confusedly in different directions like ants from a ruined ant-hill. [2]
- Why, he'd have slammed you through the window and utterly ruined a hundred dollars' worth of window-sash and stuff. [5]
- I confess with shame--and I now beseech your pardon for it--that I said to the ruined stranger all of the words contained in the test-remark, including the disparaging fifteen. [5]
- Blaze took his sentence calmly, looking the jury squarely in the eyes, and when the judge stopped, he bowed to him, and then turned to the jury and said: "Gentlemen, you have ruined my life. [11]
- How could he say to her that her father had ruined Mr. Bentley? [9]
- Smith had the satisfaction of wounding the rascal, and the inhabitants of a ruined tower near by, who witnessed the combat, were quite satisfied with the event. [4]
- They are not ruined, they are renewed. [5]
- Then am I ruined, and mine orphan sisters with me! [5]
- My father was ruined, and I was forced into marriage with John Temple for his possessions. [9]
- Many people are ruined, an immense amount of capital which ventured into enterprises is lost, but of course the greatest sufferers are the workingmen themselves. [4]
- She will be ruined or dead before Caracalla leaves Alexandria! [10]
- For she has ruined my life and brought shame on a good name. [9]
- This is a ruined Khan of the Middle Ages, in one of whose side courts is a great walled and arched pit with water in it, and this pit, one tradition says, is the one Joseph's brethren cast him into. [5]
- I would be ruined if I was published, and the people would lynch me, and not believe what I said. [5]
- Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches. [5]
- These solitary and ruined chambers had their own terrors and enchantments, and for the first nights gave the author little but sinister suggestions and grotesque food for his imagination. [4]
- I've seen men ruined before this, because of an hour's passion and folly. [11]
- Yonder is a ruined arch of a bridge built by Julius Caesar nineteen hundred years ago. [5]
- Aw'm lost, aw'm ruined and shall raise ma head nevermore. [11]
- And even that ruined and befouled house--which in dull weather was repulsively ugly--seemed quietly beautiful now, in the clear, motionless brilliance. [2]
- Surely not venerable Rome--nor the green plain that compasses her round about, contrasting its brightness with her gray decay--nor the ruined arches that stand apart in the plain and clothe their looped and windowed raggedness with vines. [5]
- Anyhow, mebbe it's right Cassy should find out, once for all, how things stand, and that they haven't altered since she took George away, and ruined his life, and sent him to his grave. [11]
- For me was reserved the high honor of discovering among the rubbish of the ruined Coliseum the only playbill of that establishment now extant. [5]
- With the next repetition he broke quite down and began to cry like a calf, which ruined all the effect and started many to the audience to laughing. [5]
- But his deadly remark had ruined his chance--at least in the law. [5]
- It seems hardly real when I find myself leaning for a moment on a ruined wall and looking listlessly down into the historic pool of Bethesda. [5]
- Still, you too, Ptolimus, bear the crosier, and to you I will confess that your brethren in office, the shepherds of the Jacobite fold, have ruined my peace for hundreds of days and nights, and I have been near to cursing them. [10]
- It has destroyed property, destroyed life, and ruined homes. [7]
- She saw herself pointed out as the woman whose designs had beggared and ruined him in his youth, and (agonizing and revolting thought! [9]
- In April the Pavlograds were stationed immovably for some weeks near a totally ruined and deserted German village. [2]
- He was ruined past hope now; his destruction would be immediate and sure, and he would be an outcast and friendless. [5]
- Hadrian, as he passed the old ruined monument on his way from Mount Kasius to Egypt, had determined to replace it by a new one, and had entrusted the work to Pontius whose labors at Lochias were now nearly ended. [10]
- The blow of overwhelming fate may be easily borne, but woe to him, whose life is ruined by his own sin! [10]
- Well, it come out that Piccadilly had ruined her, and one morning she was found dead. [11]
- Trying to make our fortune in Virginia, Beriah Sellers nearly ruined us and we had to settle in Kentucky and start over again. [5]
- Could it be otherwise, with what was behind her life--a husband who had ruined her youth, had committed homicide, had escaped capture, but who had not subsequently died, as the world believed he had done, so circumstantial was the evidence. [11]
- Aelia rose up on the very soil where their ruined Jerusalem had stood, and the statues of which you speak stand in their holy places. [10]
- Window shades, of oil stuff, with milk-maids and ruined castles stenciled on them in fierce colors. [5]
- The great majority of these poor creatures were already ruined by such competition, and Amru, seeing the Arab leather-workers, weavers, ropemakers, and the rest, threatened with the same fate, had determined to set himself firmly to restrict all this monastic work. [10]
- There were many of these now in the town; ten thousand had seen those dearest to them perish, and others, being wounded, had within a few days been ruined both in health and estate. [10]
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