Sentence examples for fake ruins from inspiring English sources

Parker had teams of workmen and builders construct fake ruins, excavate a pond and import scores of potted plants.

There will be fake ruins and faux waterfalls built especially for the wedding that seem suspiciously like a Tolkien backdrop, too.

Its Renaissance-style arcade, its curved colonnade, its fake ruins and statues of famous people give it a touch of venerability.

Marie Antoinette played milkmaid at her private retreat; François Racine de Monville dallied in his fake ruins; William Randolph Hearst commissioned his own private castle.

Towers, temples, pagodas, pavilions and pyramids have all been favored as follies, as have gazebos, aviaries, fake ruins and free-standing rotundas.

Officials were notified that he had reportedly built a small village - including a gated cottage, fake ruins, bridges, ponds, waterfalls and a huge dancefloor - without permission in a closed campground owned by Ventana Inn & Spa.

He speculates — reasonably, to my mind — that faking ruined the artist's creativity.

The fake architectural ruins surrounding it -- columns, statues and temples built out of construction-site castoffs, broken concrete sidewalks from town, scraps of wood and flea market finds -- were fashioned primarily for the pleasure of creation.

Still, have the recurring scandals over fake memoirs ruined the game for the honest ones?

Continue past the fake Greco-Roman ruin, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre (001 415 567 6642; palace offinearts.org) and the adjoining mind-altering Exploratorium (001 415 561 0360; exploratorium.edu) a museum of science, art and human perception, to the bay shoreline.

It's literally the No. 1 most annoying request cliche and will pretty much ensure that your request gets harshly shafted and your (fake) birthday promptly ruined.