Wondering how to use Ruined in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as destroyed or lost.
Ruined meaning
simple past and past participle of ruin
Using Ruined
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of ruin
- Useful related words include: destroyed, lost, done for, sunk.
- In the example corpus, ruined often appears in combinations such as: ruined the, ruined by, was ruined.
Context around Ruined
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ruined
- In this selection, "ruined" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brother, totally, villa, palace, bombed and christ stand out and add context to how "ruined" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a city ruined by 1960s and and even ruined her birthday. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ruined" sits close to words such as aew, alexa and commodities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ruined
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Athena shows up to say Willow ruined her Collision debut. (10 words)
Almost everything on that's been 'ruined' is because of exposure. (11 words)
And there’s rain tomorrow, so the snow will be ruined. (11 words)
At the core of the campaign is still the belief that Glasgow deserves better, and that it deserves the reputation of being one of the most beautiful and liveable cities, and not a city ruined by 1960s planning. (38 words)
Aston Villa ruined Tottenham's bid to climb back into the Premier League's top four as a costly mistake from Hugo Lloris condemned the north Londoners to a damaging 2-0 defeat on Sunday. (35 words)
Asked in Manchester if he felt it would make for a challenging situation, Hewitt agreed and said it was time to get rid of those organisers he believes have ruined the event. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was Partition that ruined his mother, set her on the course toward the ruined palace, Shahid had told me.
The three spires are: Holy Trinity (left), remaining spire of the ruined (bombed) cathedral and the remaining spire of the ruined Christ Church (right).
A former star of the 17th series, Laura Cartner, said Big Brother 'ruined her life' as she suffered with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder after exiting the house.
After all, there are several unique recipes that Link can learn about by finding cookbooks or talking to the residents of this ruined world.
Airports, on the other hand, say a divergence of fortunes is holding back investment, after staff shortages and other snafus caused backups that ruined many holidays last summer.
Almost everything on that's been 'ruined' is because of exposure.
Although Argostoli was totally ruined by the earthquake in 1953, there are still sites that depict the old Venetian architecture.
And she says that the giant gastropods even ruined last year’s Christmas dinner after they got into the kitchen drawer just as she was about to serve up.
And there’s rain tomorrow, so the snow will be ruined.
Ariana suggested that Tom's "plan" was ruined when news of his affair leaked.
As a result of the incident, the pair have been left devastated as they feel they have “let people down and ruined kids’ birthday parties”.
Asked in Manchester if he felt it would make for a challenging situation, Hewitt agreed and said it was time to get rid of those organisers he believes have ruined the event.
Aston Villa ruined Tottenham's bid to climb back into the Premier League's top four as a costly mistake from Hugo Lloris condemned the north Londoners to a damaging 2-0 defeat on Sunday.
Athena shows up to say Willow ruined her Collision debut.
At Payback, she’ll face Raquel Rodriguez, one of the few women on the roster who hasn’t been ruined by bad booking and also presents a fresh challenger.
At the core of the campaign is still the belief that Glasgow deserves better, and that it deserves the reputation of being one of the most beautiful and liveable cities, and not a city ruined by 1960s planning.
Before Delly left for Florida, Moss didn't treat her right, and even ruined her birthday.
But if New York had any momentum prior to that, it was definitely ruined.
But the Australian maverick has tried to dampen down expectations of another spectacular run, insisting he won’t put “unfair expectations” on himself after his injury-ruined season.
Casey claimed in one instance someone ruined a fridge full of evidence by leaving their lunchbox in it.
Common combinations with ruined
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: