Sentence examples for ruins against from inspiring English sources

Mr. Meyerowitz showed gorgeous pictures of the ruins against a blue sky laced with pink clouds.

Moscow has shown open contempt for the west's actions in leaving Syria's army unsupported last year, when it had secured the ruins against Isis.

In "Untitled (N. 7)" and "Untitled (N. 32)" taping and retaping have left shards of sharp color that stand out like little ruins against absorbent grays and blacks.

On the next day I climbed one of the adjacent peaks in the Reveille Range, which stood like the tower of an old ruin against the sky.

Wishes, that wet the dryness of our tongues while our parents pile bricks and ruin against the door from inside.

LOS ANGELES —  Stanford's perfect season was on the brink of ruin against U.S.C. on Saturday night because of a rare mistake by its impeccable quarterback Andrew Luck.

The toppling skyscraper clawed away at the building's wedding-cake tiers, set blood orange fires within its white brick walls and piled a mountain of ruin against its facade.

Corfe Castle, its atmospheric ruins silhouetted against the night sky, is the dramatic setting for some late summer al fresco cinema.

T. S. Eliot, who makes a brief appearance in the movie, supplied his own annotations to "The Waste Land," a poem that imagines itself as "fragments shored against my ruins" — that is, against the collapse of the civilization from which the bits and pieces were rescued.

Threats are more effective against respected journalists whose careers you are threatening to ruin than against complicit regulators that can ruin yours.

Favre raised the subject of sitting for a game or two last week after he threw his latest game-ruining interception against the Jets last Monday.