Sentence examples for like ruins from inspiring English sources
Though bargains may be scattered (like ruins) throughout the older quarters of the city, certain elegant neighborhoods are best avoided entirely — Parioli and the area around Via Veneto, for example.
Shadowy streets and university buildings, empty (because the photographs required long exposures and so couldn't capture people moving), look ghostly like ruins.
In a different accidental find, explorers from Canada looking for shipwrecks off Cuba's western tip discovered huge stones in oddly symmetrical shapes, like ruins of buildings.
The stations possess the discreet majesty of abandoned cathedrals, designed for vastly more people than currently use them, like ruins that have never been inhabited.
Once they were the shipshape town houses of the Brooklyn Navy Yard's senior officers, but now the gray buildings sit like ruins encountered in a jungle, their facades, roofs and interiors overgrown with ivy, weeds, even saplings.
11) Old Panama Hat History buffs won't want to miss the tombstone-like ruins of Panamá Viejo, the original 1519 Spanish settlement sunken along the eastern fringes of the modern city.
But once you've negotiated the Dresden-like ruins of central Homs – the acres of blitzed homes and apartment blocks and shops and Ottoman houses, still dripping with broken water mains and sewage – you must turn right outside the city and follow the signposts to Raqqa.
The transformation has been stimulated in no small part by Zhukova's husband Roman Abramovichs's 2013 acquisition of the restaurant building, and the neighbouring 1920s Hexagon pavilion, a mysterious concentric formation of temple-like ruins that will be the next phase of the Garage project.
"Stonehenge-like ruins" were erected and sand piled into mounds that reached 9 m.
Download....has to do with these haunting, castle-like ruins: Incredibly, they are actually within 20 feet of each other!
