Sentence examples for ruins about from inspiring English sources

The ruins, about 800 feet from shore, may have been a lighthouse.

Aztec Ruins, about 2 miles (3.2 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, contains multistory "great houses" as well as smaller pueblos.

Earlier this year, Amy Wilentz published a Reporter at Large, "Running in the Ruins," about the campaign for the Haitian presidency.

The book about Lawrence becomes a book about failing to write about Lawrence; a projected work about the ruins of antiquity (mentioned in "Yoga") gets nowhere — "Such a book would one day lie in ruins about me".

At the end of Act Three we have left Angelo guilty, in theory at least, of blackmailing rape and of treacherous judicial murder, and with his career in ruins about him.

The book about Lawrence becomes a book about failing to write about Lawrence; a projected work about the ruins of antiquity (mentioned in "Yoga") gets nowhere—"Such a book would one day lie in ruins about me".

The central ruins cover about 150 acres (60 hectares), but the remains of the residential districts extend over considerably more ground.

George's pride sets up a fall, first into a sweet, awkward infatuation with an aspiring actress named Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), then into professional ruin brought about by his stubborn refusal to change with the times.

His son said: "It was so hot, I think we ruined about six shirts that day.

If you've seen Ms. Nottage's "Ruined," about Congolese women in wartime, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama, no introduction is necessary.

A production of her 2009 Pulitzer prize-winning play, Ruined, about Congolese women surviving civil war, is running at the Almeida, London N1.