How to Use ruination in a Sentence

ruination

noun

• Water pollution is causing the ruination of the fishing industry.
• Fire is to piers what water was to the Wicked Witch of the West — a ruination.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• Bobby’s days and proves to be both haunt and ruination.
  — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• Reid, who died in late 2021, lived to see the utter ruination of his plans by his own actions.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Nov. 2023
• Weir helped birth the new world, watched its ruination, and spent the autumn of his life rebuilding it.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• Over the past three years, there have been other life ruination candidates.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
• The death of the tree stands in for the ruination of the earth by capitalism and industrialization.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• The ruination of Obamacare is once again tied up with keeping the government running.
  — Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• With that would come the ruination of many individual lives as well.
  — Agya K. Aning, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2020
• The ruination of slavery was more than the infernal indignity of being owned like a mule or a plow.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• Philip has been on this track for a while, though Martha’s ruination and Paige’s entanglement in the family secret hasn’t helped.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 June 2016
• Perhaps the most ghoulish sight of ruination in Kharkiv was the Barabashovo Market, the biggest outdoor market in the city, whose shops and kiosks and stalls were now bent metal and ash.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
• Be it getting booed or being ghosted, the ruination will be utilized.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• The main — and only — character is 11 years old and is embodied by three adults, talking to a roomful of adults, telling us all about adult life, about greed and the ruination of the landscape of our world.
  — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 11 June 2018
• For his complete lack of sins, he is punished with an infinity of ruination.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2020
• Davis and Stocker are interested not in the ruination of the palace, however, but in its beginnings.
  — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Davis and Stocker are interested not in the ruination of the palace, however, but in its beginnings.
  — Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• Giuliani's career appears destined for ruination while Donald Trump heads for the golf course.
  — Paul Callan, CNN, 25 June 2021
• What happens when a con artist crosses paths with a CIA agent one night in a bar when both parties are reeling from recent romantic ruination?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Their parents neglected to read the fine print of the college loan paperwork, which ultimately led to the ruination of many young people.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• Ten of Swords: End of a cycle, betrayal, being back-stabbed, complete ruination of a situation, martyrdom, the worst has now passed.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 19 July 2022
• Fleeing from ruination is not simply a matter of movement, either.
  — Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 9 May 2020
• Instead, this is a sincere, if deeply misguided attempt to fabricate weepy wonderment amid the ruination of World War II.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Sep. 2021
• Cool cameo for your kid, maybe — or a dramatization of the precise fear motivating Anakin toward ruination.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Morris in particular is brought so low that he is reduced to begging on his hands and knees for Russell to undo their financial ruination.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• While the Utah Jazz’s early-season success has been a fun story around the league, there has been widespread speculation that the team is just one Mike Conley injury or trade away from total ruination.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• We are struck less by nature’s sublime powers than by the enormity of our capacity for ruination.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• The thick, wobbly black lines were evidence of constant repainting, and could suggest ruination or collapse.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• And just for kicks, here's a recent post by Joe Romm that blames Obama for the ruination of civilization, or something like that, for not tackling climate legislation before the health care bill.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2010
• Besides the ruination of what was supposed to be an enjoyable escape, there is a concern too about impacting traffic and the adverse results thereof.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 May 2021

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024