Sentence examples for great ruin from inspiring English sources
It sits like a great ruin on a bluff above the Great Falls, a graffiti-spattered, poured concrete, Art Deco monument to better times in the Rodney Dangerfield of New Jersey cities.
It expresses condemnation of apartheid without threatening great ruin.
"Pity is an emotion that can lead to great ruin".
From a distance, Benjamin's magnificent opus is reminiscent of another great ruin of 20th- century literature, Ezra Pound's Cantos.
The very [fossil fuel] technology that has brought great reward is now poised to bring great ruin".
Randy Wilcox, founder of the photo blog Detroitfunk, said the plant's notoriety has increased since Detroit's other great ruin, Michigan Central Station, was sealed to the public.
Many other great ruins have been carefully excavated and preserved.
CHARLES GWATHMEY: I've always said that the greatest architecture has produced great ruins.
"One of the great ruins in America," he called it, before asking ever so gently, "Would that $91 million be better spent building up better housing?
Vijayanagar, ( Sanskrit: "City of Victory") great ruined city in southern India and also the name of the empire ruled first from that city and later from Penukonda (in present-day southwestern Andhra Pradesh state) between 1336 and about 1614.
Aziz remembers the great ruins of the city from her childhood at Nineveh, near the modern city of Mosul, but she left Iraq in 1976 with her family and now lives and works in Chicago.
