Sentence examples for ruins like from inspiring English sources

It is a struggling city of ruins, like a modern Pompeii.

Ruins, like tragic drama, offer occasions of sweet-and-sour catharsis.

And while communities close to sacred Inca ruins, like Pisac and Ollantaytambo, also thrived, others were forgotten.

What to do...After exploring nearby ruins like Sacsayhuamán and Qorikancha, hit the dance floors of downtown Cuzco.

In his book, Mr. Binelli compared ruins like the Packard plant to cathedrals, writing that "they can feel beautiful and tragic at the same time".

It has been half a century since anyone toiled in the creaky wooden mining works that hover above the ruins like ghost steeples.

There is no sign anywhere saying this ruin-like, run-down little building that might have been an old workshop is the Antje Øklesund.

It also came out of the hope that the city might be reborn inside itself, out of its own ruins, phoenix-like, rising out of its own ashes.

"To see it ruined like this, it is so sad".

For the true connoisseur, it seems, nothing ruins a ruin like repair.

"You're ruined, like the rest of us ruined," the group sings in Mr. Newman's "Crash Years".