Sentence examples for ruins left from inspiring English sources

As he has for some three decades, Mr. Simonds constructs ancient ruins left by some unknown Lilliputian civilization.

A former Khmer Rouge, he emerged in the Vietnamese-backed regime that rebuilt Cambodia from the ruins left by the Pol Pot terror of 1975-79.

There they found that their mother's small grocery store stood unscathed amid the ruins left by the Allied bombing of the severely battered Ruhr industrial region.

Unlike the restoration at Auschwitz, some are in clumps, ruins left by the SS when they blew them up in an attempt to destroy all evidence before retreating.

" Sloterdijk was born in 1947, part of the generation that Germans call "rubble children"; he remembers playing in the ruins left behind by the Allied bombing campaigns.

When the Syrian government's forces fell back and Isis captured the city on 20 May, concerns were divided between the ancient Roman ruins left behind and the civilians and captive soldiers who faced a massacre.

He claims that the Etruscan ruins "leave the breast breathing freely and pleasantly, with a certain fulness of life" — and you think of how little of his lungs Lawrence had left to breathe with when he wrote those words, in 1927.

But very little has been written about Peru's other lost city and archaeologists are still uncovering new parts of the ruins, leaving life on the mountain relatively untrammelled.

The city is peppered with luscious greenery, expansive farms and ancient ruins, leaving you no other choice but to feel as though you've stepped out of reality and back into the 13th century.

Juan follows, entering through a blasted-out window, a symbol, perhaps, of the ruin left by the riots.

*   *   * Without so much as a by-your-leave, Dad would take himself off for the winter to the Giant Mountains somewhere, usually to hole up in some ruin left behind by Germans expelled after the war.