Sentence examples for some ruin from inspiring English sources

*   *   * 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.

(In it, I said that, since I'd never seen Alice read a fashion magazine, the fact that she was able to answer in detail when I asked her about someone's bizarre outfit always stunned me, "as if I had idly wondered out loud about the meaning of some inscription on some ruin in Oaxaca and she had responded by translating fluently from the Toltec").

Now, if you would excuse me, I am going to take my laptop and look at some ruin porn.

Reading it, I was put in mind of a phrase from Larkin's "Church Going," which envisages a certain kind of latter-day, fogeyish church visitor — "some ruin-bibber, randy for antique".

"It comes down, it falls everywhere like some ruined.

I saw a Burmese family encamped beside some ruins and, with their help, reoriented myself.

"Today our ship photographer will take your photo in front of some ruins.

"We were out a little north of Shatrah, and we saw some ruins in the desert.

The plan had been to travel in Guatemala, go to the lake, some ruins there.

Walking through some ruins talking to camera isn't enough for her.

Continue up the path to reach a wider paved path by some ruins and a signpost.