Ruinous in a sentence

Bust contracts and constant repairs mean the town is constantly under repair, with rubble, cranes and fences giving it more of a dilapidated and ruinous look than desired.

But the risk of Israeli civilians falling victim to relentless Israeli bombardment or languishing for years in Hamas captivity while Israel gets dragged into an open-ended campaign could also be politically ruinous for Netanyahu.

California’s Green DebacleThe Golden State’s energy policies impose ruinous costs on residents but make no measurable impact on global climate.

Chapagain said the disaster also has been ruinous for Syrians’ mental health.

Secret yearnings unleashed, ruinous deceits perpetrated, scandalous familial dysfunction displayed…isn’t it astonishing what loneliness can do to a person?

Some survivors proposed making rapists responsible for the often ruinous costs of seeking justice, as well as personal repair.

The only detail players truly need to remember is that Joel’s daughter was tragically killed, and that has stirred a ruinous rage within him.

The pair were subsequently ordered by the judge to try to resolve their differences outside of court in a bid to avoid a financially ruinous court fight.

Today, as half a century ago, the consequences of zealotry can be ruinous.

West Scotland Labour MSP Katy Clark recently urged the local authority to reject what she described as the "ruinous" proposals.

Finley Tighe is the illegitimate son of a British earl and an engineer at Eiffel’s firm who’s trying to drum up wealthy investors for what all Paris thinks will be a ruinous eyesore.

I study healthcare markets, but California families don’t need a professor to tell them health costs can be ruinous.

Specialist solicitors say the passing of the property-rich boomer generation and a rise in dementia diagnoses are fuelling the financially ruinous and emotionally exhausting legal battles.

But he also warns state governors that attempts to lock down entire communities in an effort to contain the spread is a futile cure that will impose ruinous economic costs.

Conversations over the not-so-festive season show that most people have little hope of 2021 being any better than the ruinous year that has almost passed.

Critics have long argued its harsh regime of extreme isolation and sensory deprivation has a ruinous effect on inmates' mental health, noting that at least eight of them have committed suicide there despite the stringent precautions.

He concedes that their numbers will never make up for the ruinous plunge in foreign visitors who once thronged the university town before the coronavirus chased them away.

People believe that giving into his extreme pressures will calm him, but the opposite is true: It only balloons his expectations, and enabling his pathology will eventually be ruinous for all, including himself.

The effect is that the burden of fines would be felt equally by everyone who receives them, instead of being disproportionately ruinous on low-income people.

The mothers I have interviewed who had ruinous diagnoses after the 20-week mark wanted nothing more than to carry a healthy pregnancy to full term and they don’t need a crude chart to know how big a flourishing foetus can get to days before it is born.