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• In a matter of hours, all that the cell had built lies in ruins.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the wake of what has been cast by some as Israel’s 9/11, a lot lies in ruins.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
• On March 26, early in the morning, the M/V Dali struck the bridge, which left it in ruins.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 11 June 2024
• The Russians withdrew at the start of April 2022, leaving the city in ruins.
  — David Baratz, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2023
• Parts of the school remain in ruins, walls covered in soot.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• The fires also burned homes and left the historic town of Lahaina in ruins.
  — Kate Selig, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Many mud-brick houses and farm sheds were still in ruins.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• The damage was already done, and the kingdom was left in ruins.
  — Tracy Levine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Like Siegfried & Roy, Arnold Schwarzenegger had a father who’d been left in ruins by the war.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• The film follows the after-effects of the explosion in Beirut, which left the city in ruins.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
• By May 29, that season was laid in ruins, swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Milwaukee Bucks.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
• There’s been a Russian missile attack, and the house, like the woman’s life, lies in ruins.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
• Disease is spreading, and the health-care system is in ruins.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• After months of shelling, the city’s buildings are almost all in ruins.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Romito bridge linked Arezzo, Fiesole and Florence but is now in ruins.
  — Barbie Nadeau, CNN, 4 May 2023
• Within three years of Mao’s death, his legacy lay in ruins.
  — Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2022
• Two weeks of heavy fighting left the hospital in ruins.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• Neighbors with flashlights found the couple unharmed, but the house lay in ruins.
  — Sima Diab, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• Now in ruins, the structure lacked a roof and was overgrown with tropical plants.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024
• The town itself was in ruins: Satellite footage taken over the summer shows a moonscape of craters.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• Founded in the 8th century B.C.E., the city is famed for its temples, which remain — in ruins — in the waters of the Mediterranean.
  — Joshua Learn, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• Freud wrote about the uncanny in 1919, months after the end of World War I, which had left millions dead and Europe in ruins.
  — Joshua Glass, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• In the ancient city of Antakya in Hatay, buildings were largely in ruins, with its mosque, old bazaar and Protestant church wrecked by the quake.
  — Gulsin Harman, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• The fighting has left the airport in ruins, and commercial flights are grounded.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Gaza is in ruins, with Israeli forces laying siege to the entire strip and leveling swaths of the enclave.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
• From the pandemic to the 2020 Beirut blast, Lebanon has been assailed by a number of crises that have left its economy in ruins.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Oregon accepting an invitation to join the Big Ten set off a chain of events that left the Pac-12 in ruins.
  — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
• Beirut, of course, is a place that has seen more than its share of travails, as the opening footage of the city in ruins in 1980 during the Lebanese Civil War illustrates.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
• The group has enjoyed a surge of popularity among Palestinians in the West Bank, and much of Gaza lies in ruins.
  — Shashank Joshi, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Union soldiers burned the ironworks and cabins, leaving the foundry, tannery and gristmill in ruins.
  — al, 6 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024