Sentence examples for go to rack from inspiring English sources

"It's sad that they just let it go to rack and ruin, Labour".

He'll bet on anything: horses, dogs, which of his children will go to rack and ruin first.

Far from leaving the northern powerhouse to go to rack and ruin, now is the time to start planning an extension.

In 1995 Trump, who owned the Empire State jointly with a Japanese consortium, claimed Helmsley's management company had let the building go to rack and ruin, turning it into a "tarnished, second rate, rodent infested commercial building".

Yewdall recalls: "At the time, there were so many people who didn't have anywhere to live and so many empty houses, so we decided to take direct action - take the houses over and improve them, rather than leave them to go to rack and ruin.

Circumstances so conspire, however, to make it look as though the boyfriend did the deed, whereupon he is executed and the little cashier lives to go to rack and ruin, tortured by ceaseless conscience and by mocking voices ringing in his ears.Now, for those who are anxious about morals, this story should make it fearfully plain that the didoes of middle-aged Don Juans are perilous in the extreme.

"You never think you're going to rack up that much of a bill".

I remember the streets of London full of rubbish, the country was going to rack and ruin.

For 30 years or more almost no one was permitted entry and the place went to rack and ruin.

Most of the small brick houses in Xinguang Sancun, huddling close to one another, are going to rack and ruin.

It is clear that once-fertile patches of land, fields and terraces have simply gone to rack and ruin.Finally we pull into Jacmel.