How to Use ruinous in a Sentence

ruinous

adjective

• The house has fallen into a ruinous state.
• Zidane won't care in the long term, but the failure to sell James and Bale is verging on ruinous.
  — SI.com, 30 July 2019
• But in the wake of Oct. 7 and the ruinous Israel-Hamas war, the need for a lasting solution is on the front burner.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• That truth, as told by these three men, was a portrait of ruinous neglect.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2021
• Still, the consensus was that the gamble would be ruinous.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• For now, though, AmEx seems to be finding growth without a ruinous price tag.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• Or fiscal collapse in Italy may force the UK to help bail out foreign banks on a ruinous scale.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• And yet, that ruinous, self-negating love was made to seem inescapable and glamorous.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Still, in practice the threat from the tools is important but likely not ruinous.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 8 Dec. 2020
• It’s been almost a year since a ruinous civil war flared in Sudan.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• This could be ruinous to families, as costs get out of control.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• But the adjacent naval campaign has proved ruinous for the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Sudan is in the grips of more than 15 months of ruinous civil strife that’s led to untold calamity and horror.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• Yet some ruinous outburst of his despair is not the worst that might have befallen.
  — Bradley J. Birzer, National Review, 26 Sep. 2021
• But a clash is brewing over what many take as a potentially ruinous threat to that quest.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2022
• If a major business pivot is made at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons, the consequences can be ruinous.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• The effect of the pandemic on the economy has been almost as ruinous.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• By the early Eighties, though, his drug abuse was having a ruinous impact.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
• The new fear factor: Could simply letting these things exist in your body be ruinous?
  — Michelle Stacey, Allure, 29 July 2019
• For years, Saudi Arabia has led a ruinous campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• Physician burnout can be ruinous for both doctors and their patients.
  — Sharona Hoffman, The Conversation, 9 July 2019
• At least the Queen of France had a foundation of noblesse-oblige training on which to build her ruinous glories of high style and fashion.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• These are just a handful of the stories playing out across the country and the world, as this virus continues its ruinous rampage.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• The match brought consolation and new life to a fishing town struck eight years ago by a ruinous earthquake and tsunami.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• In graph after graph, the book depicts a race to a peak of production, followed by a ruinous decline as the planet is stripped bare.
  — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2020
• On the face of it, that figure seems to imply that paying a fine even as large as nearly half a billion dollars shouldn’t be ruinous to him.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• Lopez pleaded guilty to robbing a male jogger that same night to avoid a more ruinous rape conviction.
  — al, 25 July 2022
• Iraq declared victory over IS in late 2017 after a ruinous and bloody war.
  — Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
• There are now a lot of high-mileage cars being driven by people for whom even a minor repair bill could be ruinous.
  — Jason M. Vaughn, Car and Driver, 23 May 2020
• Macron warns that the left’s economic program of many tens of billions of euros in public spending, partly financed by taxes on wealth and hikes for high earners, could be ruinous for France, already criticized by EU watchdogs for its debt.
  — Lori Hinnant, The Denver Post, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024