Sentence examples for fall to ruin from inspiring English sources

Again and again, beautiful old buildings have been torn down or allowed to fall to ruin.

Get in the sea – should we allow coastal heritage sites to fall to ruin?

This is why there are still ravens at the Tower, and why there is an abiding belief that if ever they leave, the kingdom will fall to ruin.

But, of course, faces like that are magnets for all manner of trials and troubles, and in the silent movie "Seven Chances" Keaton, who also directs, plays a lowly businessman whose firm will fall to ruin unless he can raise a lot of cash quickly.

Renters of may become first-time homeowners of the house they already live in, prospective small-business owners may secure a storefront for their new company, investors from New York to China may find an investment opportunity in the Detroit renaissance, a family may lose their childhood home only to have it fall to ruin.

There is no chance that the Turbine Hall will fall to ruins or become a Tate Modern Berlin any time soon.

It is easy to tell when other civilizations cease to be: their borders disappear, their buildings fall to ruins, their people migrate elsewhere or intermarry with their conquerors.

Without proper upkeep, many missions fell to ruin.

I guess I thought that she would move back in, but in our absence her web had fallen to ruin.

The village remained dirt poor, its population dwindled to 600 from 4,000 and many houses fell to ruin.

Smith presents a fragment of chiselled melody, like a pillar of a building that has otherwise fallen to ruin.