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Example sentences for "ruining"

Lexicographically close words:
ruinated; ruination; ruine; ruined; ruines; ruinous; ruinously; ruins; ruint; ruisseau
  1. I began to cry and the girl told him he ought to be ashamed of himself ruining a poor hard-working girl who was looking for her sister and he only laughed again and said he knew all about that.

  2. But he's ruining a lot of the old landocrats and naturally they don't like it.

  3. Of battles in onset, And ruining armours, And God's gift returning In fury to God!

  4. The Senate resolved to depart from a policy which was slowly but surely ruining the State, and an army was equipped larger than Rome ever before sent into the field, composed of eight legions, under the command of the two consuls, L.

  5. The sacrilege sent universal dismay into the city, and was regarded as a most depressing omen, and was done, doubtless, with a view of ruining Alcibiades and frustrating the expedition.

  6. She will have to leave in a month for certain, but she is not much put out, as the viceroy is sure to keep her wherever she goes, and she may eventually succeed in ruining him.

  7. However, as the count did his best to spend double that amount, he was rapidly ruining himself.

  8. When the king heard what had happened he ordered the worthy actress to leave Madrid, to prevent the duke ruining himself.

  9. He would sometimes ride ten or twelve stages at full gallop, utterly ruining the horses.

  10. Ganganelli thought it better to let his subjects skip than to give them the opportunity of ruining themselves, of committing suicide, or of becoming brigands; but Rezzonico did not see the matter in that light.

  11. What advantages could you expect by ruining and distressing the inhabitants of Quebec, whose houses you burnt?

  12. While all this was going on in the north, James, in Dublin, had been busily employed in deluging the country with base money to supply his own necessities, with the natural result of ruining all who were forced to accept it.

  13. A bank kept in Ireland by the two Sadleirs broke, ruining an enormous number of people, and on investigation was found to have been fraudulently conducted from the very beginning.

  14. The king will certainly believe what you say, and Saouy be vexed to the soul, to see all his malicious design of ruining you disappointed.

  15. For that would be the means," said she, "of ruining both you and me; I know what belongs to genies better than you.

  16. O, people, people, your being blinded here as to the knowledge of this is one great cause of the ruining of many.

  17. As I drove away, my heart was full of bitter reflections, that I had been the cause of ruining this man’s prospects, not only of this world, but of that which is to come.

  18. We are not merely paper-makers, we are printers besides and bankers, and people say that you are ruining us.

  19. You will end by ruining us," said the manager.

  20. It passed everywhere from mouth to mouth, ruining Lucien, all unsuspicious as he was.

  21. It was said that David Sechard was ruining the firm of Cointet Brothers.

  22. People say that you are ruining them," said old Sechard.

  23. We don't need all this new-fangled science, or this terrible Higher Criticism that's ruining our young men in colleges.

  24. Possibly some day we shall have your fat cynical Frenchman (horrible, sneering, tobacco-stained object, ruining his brains and his digestion with vile liquor!

  25. She was ruining herself with every word she uttered.

  26. One can serve the people without ruining one's own life.

  27. You have gone cruelly astray and are ruining yourself.

  28. Yes, but the remedy does not consist in ruining one's own life.

  29. That is all the thanks I get for adventuring myself in the fury of the elements, and ruining past cure as fine a coat as ever was seen in Spring Garden.

  30. There was a deafening roar, followed by the crash of ruining stone-work and the vociferations of the exultant forayers, who swarmed forward to clear away the rubbish.

  31. I went into the affair with the expectation of getting a handsome percentage on the dowry, so that accursed hunchback ruined me in ruining Mornand.

  32. So, as I should have the same difficulty to contend with in another guardian, but not have the same effectual means of coercing him, perhaps, such a change might injure rather than aid my plans, besides ruining you irretrievably.

  33. Since Trafalgar the Emperor had been pondering over new schemes for ruining England.

  34. Napoleon did not succeed in ruining the commerce of England, but he succeeded in making Germans and Russians and Italians pay monstrous prices for their coffee or their sugar, and got their well-earned curses for it.

  35. Eadric cared only for ruining any noble who could possibly be his rival, and for enlarging his ealdormanry; of the defence of England he took no more thought than did his master.

  36. But we haven't had a birth for three weeks running; it's just ruining our reputation.

  37. Men like Ulrich von Hutten were prepared to justify the robber-knights because they attacked the merchants, who, he said, were ruining Germany.

  38. Colet saw clearly, and denounced the abounding evils which were ruining the Church of his day.

  39. I was the conqueror who, in ruining the Casino, was utterly destroying their home land, condemning them to poverty and hardship.

  40. He was capable of ruining himself, of braving death for them, but he was ready to thrust them aside with his foot if they tried in the least to govern his life.

  41. Then in the winter they are completely covered by the deep snow, and so are as safe as beavers' kitchens.

  42. The boys, however, could not help remarking the great change in the temperature from midday.

  43. Then, as it was about a hundred miles away, it would be a capital winter's trip and give them some idea of the Indian hunter's life.

  44. The whole thing has been engineered with the deliberate intention of ruining us.

  45. And to think that I am passing my life in peril, ruining my health and shattering my nerves for a creature like that!

  46. Amos Lawrence fell into the habit to which all were given, and for some time went along with the rest; but at length he came to the conclusion that such indulgence was wantonly ruining his health, and he resolved to abstain entirely.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baneful; calamitous; cataclysmic; catastrophic; collapse; consuming; consumptive; damage; deadly; deleterious; desolating; destruction; destructive; devastating; disastrous; fatal; fateful; internecine; nihilistic; ruinous; subversive; suicidal; wasteful; wasting; withering