Sentence examples for lay ruined from inspiring English sources
Smoke and flames continued to rise from pockets of his land and several buildings lay ruined.
Once a mighty trading post, it was abandoned after the Crusades and lay ruined for 500 years.
The salon in which she used to work lay ruined in the town, where all commerce had ceased.
Vast fields of sesame lay ruined by Hurricane Norbert, the year's only crop left to the birds.
The next morning, the Boardwalk lay ruined and the family was at the beginning of a process that took months and involved emptying the kitchen of raw sewage and seeing bits of their lives, from baby pictures to Dr. Trasciatti's cake mixer, hauled away by sanitation workers.
It is most likely based on the abundant examples of late Roman or early Byzantine buildings that lay ruined in the Bulgarian lands.
Its collapsed heavy industry lies ruined in a hilly landscape.
Saddam Hussein lies ruined, face down, in the dust of a warehouse in a northern corner of town.
There are few sights less edifying than self-satisfied men giving themselves a fiscal conservative rubdown as a stretch of America lies ruined.
A humanist doesn't need to explain away bone cancer, earthquakes, or parasites which lay ruin to a child's quality of life.
