Sentence examples for burning ruins from inspiring English sources

Days later he returned to work at the American Stock Exchange, near the still burning ruins.

She tells of the principal standing among the burning ruins and asking cheerfully what kind of school to build next.

French artillery pounded much of the city to burning ruins, but the Russian infantry defended their positions with a grim tenacity that stunned the French.

The town is founded by Aeneas, who was informed as he left the burning ruins of Troy that it was his fate to found a new city with a glorious destiny in the West.

Guernica, a town of some 10,000 inhabitants, was yesterday reduced to a mass of burning ruins by countless numbers of German "planes which kept up a continuous bombing for three and a half hours".

New York Waterway, which used its ferries on Sept. 11 to evacuate people from the burning ruins of the twin towers area, was also the recipient of millions in federal assistance to provide additional service that could replicate the PATH rail schedules.

You stumble to your lopsided front door and look out on the burning ruin of your neighborhood.

But the army attacked using heavy weapons, triggering a 27-hour battle that left the palace a burning ruin and more than 100 people dead, including several judges.

Deep-fryers have a thermostat that automatically controls the temperature so that there is less chance of foods burning and ruining the oil.

Ever since December when government soldiers overran the town of Tawila, burning homes and ruining wells, the pump has been the only source of safe water for kilometres around.

Then comes the occasional smashed house, checkpoints and a disused railway line, followed by a village of ruins and burning fields where the shells have set the corn alight.