Sentence examples for and a ruin of from inspiring English sources

Grozny, Chechnya's nominal capital and a ruin of a city, still lacks gas, electricity and any visible efforts at restoration.

She went, and met a ruin of a man who was "totally vacuous and completely happy".

It is a ruin of ruins and it is wonderful.

We've seen grown men scramble for a ball and risk the ruin of a $500 suit.

I remember standing outside his vacant and absolute ruin of a house, his shack, and thinking, "This has to be the most poverty-stricken drug kingpin ever".

He looked at the "waste and ruin of a ravaged heart... rolling and heaving, one beat after another, like a boxer about to collapse in the ring".

The building started life as Public School 35, was later used as a shelter for homeless women and now resembles a Roman ruin of eerie beauty.

One of the most admired plays of its time, it concerns the mental and moral disintegration and ultimate ruin of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle.

The same is true of the outrageous role of the US and Britain in creating a security bantustan, and the ruin of our civic and political space.

After an unsuccessful revolt and the ruin of the Fitzgeralds of Desmond, Kerry fell within the scope of the plantation of Munster, begun in 1586.

NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution.