Sentence examples for falling to ruin from inspiring English sources

The meaning of this foundational and affirming festival seems to be crumbling away, a precious edifice falling to ruin like so many lonely churches.

Five years ago she sold the hotel in preparation for retirement, only to take it over again in 1999 because she could not bear to see it falling to ruin.

The 15th century A.D. Peruvian site was abandoned shortly after Spanish conquistadors invaded the neighboring areas, falling to ruin until 1911, when an American scholar stumbled across the remains.

Without proper upkeep, many missions fell to ruin.

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

Her home was one of the 3,900 built under the Nehemiah housing program, which began nearly three decades ago, when acres of the Bronx and Brooklyn had fallen 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.

Or did he subtly intend for part of Willy's tragedy to be his estrangement from the Jewish and Judaic heritage that might have provided some ballast as his working life, and with it his very identity, falls to ruin?