Sentence examples for ruins up from inspiring English sources

"To come into the city and see the ruins up on the hill, all illuminated, was just an incredible sight".

Occupying a high tableland area of 81 square miles (210 square km), it contains hundreds of pueblo (Indian village) ruins up to 13 centuries old.

The hurricane ruined up to one million acres of sugar cane and as much as 20percentt of the citrus crop, Cuban authorities reported.

Charb stood in the ruins, holding up the magazine.

Time will draw to a zero point, a dot: angels will pick through the ruins, kicking up the petals from the gutters, arms wrapped in tattered flags.

But behind the pomp there is a new battle for Oradour-sur-Glane: the race to ensure the ruins stay up.

Today concrete ruins rise up along alongside Route 2, with only a historic marker to make some sense of what's left.

Roberto Visani's 2009 sculpture of a cast plastic handgun in a smashed glass case and Wardell Milan's 2008 photographic montage of a world in ruins pick up on references to military violence in her prints from the 1960s.

Down below, the great swath of ruins sprawl up to the Royal Tombs on the opposite cliff face in a commanding display of what the Nabataeans achieved.

The Viking-age ruins make up the largest such site visible anywhere in Britain and include a longhouse; excavations provided numerous tools and a detailed insight into life in Shetland at this time.

The dichotomy between nature's sweetness and war's destructiveness is further described in chapter eighteen: "A cloud of dark smoke as from smoldering ruins went up toward the sun now bright and gay in the blue, enameled sky".