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Examples of ruination in a Sentence
Water pollution is causing the ruination of the fishing industry.
neglect and indifference have proved to be the ruination of more than one marriage
Recent Examples on the Web
Fire is to piers what water was to the Wicked Witch of the West — a ruination.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
Advertisement The wind did not discriminate with its ruination.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
Noise is another dimension of humanity’s ruination of the natural world.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Reid, who died in late 2021, lived to see the utter ruination of his plans by his own actions.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 Nov. 2023
Weir helped birth the new world, watched its ruination, and spent the autumn of his life rebuilding it.
—Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
Pugh makes her character’s arc from a woman with everything to live for to suicidal depression believable in every respect, while Freeman cannily underplays his character’s torment as well as the decency that enables him to befriend the person who caused such ruination in his life.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
Coal mining was for years a bulwark against utter economic ruination, but regulation, a lengthy permitting process, and other factors both economic and geological pushed what remains of the region’s coal business away toward other communities.
—Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
Over the course of the book, the mystery of Leslie’s birth pales in the face of a still greater riddle, which intensifies with every depression, recession, panic, crash, bankruptcy, lawsuit and family ruination: how anybody got the idea that capitalism works, and that men should be in charge of it.
—New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1599, in the meaning defined above
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“Ruination.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruination. Accessed 15 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
ruination
noun
ru·in·a·tion
ˌrü-ə-ˈnā-shən
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