How to Use ruin in a Sentence

ruin

1 of 2 verb

• The scandal ruined the mayor.
• The bad weather ruined the party.
• I ruined the sauce by adding too much garlic.
• He was ruined by debt.
• His low test scores ruined his chances of getting into a good school.
• Poor customer service ruined the company's reputation.
• Rescuers worked through the night to find survivors buried in the dusty ruins.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa’ab Eishamy, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2023
• It won’t get ruined in the wash either—just make sure to line-dry the staple.
  — Andie Kanaras, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2023
• Spare me how the ambience was ruined when Mount Davis blocked the view of the Oakland hills.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Didn’t get the job done today and ruined one of Cole’s great outings.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
• But oftentimes, the smoke that comes with a campfire gets in the way and can ruin a good time.
  — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
• The setback ruined what had been an unblemished record at home for the Tigers.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Eaton said the bones of the Montpelier building are fine, but the equipment was ruined.
  — Ellie Wolfe, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• Available in toddler and big kid sizes, the hoodie is preshrunk, so it won't get ruined in the wash.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 18 Mar. 2024
• Greasy hair and an oily scalp can ruin even the best of good hair days, and sometimes even your go-to dry shampoo won’t help.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2023
• Visitors can wander around the temple ruins for a unique look at how this part of the world used to be.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• Their mother had left the brothers her house, but when the big freeze hit Texas in 2021, the pipes burst and ruined everything.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
• Sherman told staffers that holes were going to ruin the sketch.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• The water was about 3 1/2 feet deep inside the store, ruining many books and fixtures.
  — Lisa Rathke, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
• Chrissy Teigen is not one to let her hairstyle ruin her mood.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
• Even talking about the voice cast (which is fantastic) would start to ruin a few things.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The woman who taught me piano told us her lettuces had been ruined.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
• And then Celine came along with this script that just sort of ruined everything.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Nothing ruins your morning quite like a glimpse of your bedhead in the mirror.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• If your laptop is ruined by rain pouring in from a hole in the roof, you can get reimbursed.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• But if the billiard balls are disturbed along the way, the delicate arrangement would be ruined, and the trick would fail.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• Except his costar, a brand-new-to-the-scene Instagram celebrity, might just ruin it all.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Would be a shame to ruin a perfectly great recipe by adding sugar.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2023
• Watch the video above to learn how to easily clean hats without ruining them.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• Jodi Marks is joyous and earthy as Nelly, whose unplanned pregnancy could ruin her plans for college and adventure.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024

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ruin

2 of 2 noun

• The castle is now a ruin.
• The abandoned town had gone to ruin.
• Her drug addiction brought her to the brink of ruin.
• The incident led to the ruin of their relationship.
• Don't let the house your grandfather built fall into ruin.
• The drought brought economic ruin to local farmers.
• South Korea has built one of the richest economies in the world from the ruins of the war.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Allow at least four to five hours to walk around the ruins.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
• The building they had been gathered in was smashed to ruins.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2023
• The evil of his ideas and the ruin launched by his deeds paved the way for the horrors that defined so much of the 20th century.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• The north side of the beach is quieter and closer to the ruins, while the south side has more hotels and restaurants.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
• The first to reach the upper ruins, Humm appears pulled to their centre.
  — Julian Manning, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, the European Union and the Gulf states were always ready to foot the bill to reconstruct the ruins in the strip.
  — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
• The ruins were found in the Lubuskie Province, which is in southwestern Poland, about 275 miles west of Warsaw.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
• Other city workers soon joined and, from that point on, Kharkiv didn’t let ruins linger.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• The film’s director, Mike Nichols, felt that Burton was in love with ruin.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• After three days of living like this, everyone knows the way around the ruins.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• For many years, pieces of the statues were scattered around the site amongst other ancient ruins.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• The Russians were lying prostrate, as if willing themselves to meld in with the ruins around them.
  — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
• These ruins used to be our lives, our carpets, food and everything.
  — Anna Coren, CNN, 14 Oct. 2023
• Among the Roman ruins were 100 coins, fragments of pottery and roofing tiles.
  — Caolán Magee, CNN, 14 June 2023
• Like the borscht belt ruin, its decay had become its allure.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• It's gotta be fun to be poking around these dark ruins and exploring Mandalore with him.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Gaza City and surrounding towns have been pounded to ruins.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023
• Hikers will also pass by ancient ruins and cave dwellings, home to the Rarámuri.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2024
• The next day, after Picasso saw photos of corpses amid the ruins of Guernica in the French dailies, his mind was made up.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• On a recent moonlit night, a four-man Ukrainian squad attempted to float a drone amid the ruins of a kindergarten in a village south of the city.
  — Nick Parker, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• Studio Fouad has been back in business since New Year’s 2022, in a line of shops freshly reclaimed from the ruins left by the port explosion.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
• Aerial images from the scene showed smoking ruins, with the structure reduced to rubble and some large pieces lodged in trees above.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
• The ruins of an ancient fortress were recently discovered on a small island along the west coast of Ireland.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024