How to Use ruinous in a Sentence

ruinous

adjective

• The house has fallen into a ruinous state.
• In the days after the crash, the prospects of Huerta’s defense would go from bad to ruinous.
  — Peter Flax, Outside Online, 15 May 2018
• 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
• This could prove ruinous to the country’s long-term future.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2017
• 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
• These NBA playoffs have been like bread sticks before the main course, so much filler and ruinous to the appetite.
  — Bernie Lincicome, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• 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
• The post-Saddam era has proved ruinous for many Sunnis.
  — David Zucchino, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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
• But tariffs, in and of themselves, are almost always ruinous to both sides, to all sides.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2018
• It’s been almost a year since a ruinous civil war flared in Sudan.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• The extreme weather that brought record floods and ruinous wildfires to the United States in the last year is just a taste of what’s to come, new research shows.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• In the wake of a ruinous work stoppage, with Gehrig’s record in sight, his streak was one of baseball’s few positive stories.
  — John Eisenberg, SI.com, 4 July 2017
• 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
• What are the odds this just becomes a ruinous, all-encompassing war?
  — Sarah El Deeb, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
• The cottage, part of a ruinous village halfway up a hill, would become both a sanctuary and a place of inspiration.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
• In a previous era, his provocative ugliness would have been tethered to discussions of ruinous performative excess rather than evidentiary of the phenomenal force of the Cage Rage.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024