ruinated

Definition of ruinatednext
past tense of ruinate

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • First Baptist Dallas will break ground on its new sanctuary on Sunday, June 7, after a massive fire destroyed the church's 134-year-old sanctuary in the summer of 2024, the church announced on Sunday.
    S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The diplomat also said that the IDF’s targeting of bridges along Lebanon’s Litani River has destroyed vital infrastructure connecting the south to the rest of the country.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Of course, it’s been ruined now because of the Coldplay concert.
    Maria Bamford, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Not a great weekend for Cinderella Has NIL ruined the college game?
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • As organizations have flattened their organizational structures and cut out middle managers, mentorship and coaching have fallen by the wayside.
    Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The campaign would mirror the one in Gaza, in which Israeli forces flattened and largely depopulated the eastern half of the Palestinian territory, Katz said on Tuesday.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The explosion wrecked the cruisers and blew out the windows of nearby buildings.
    Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Roads were closed, and ballfields were wrecked because of the rain.
    Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Clardy had 17 points and three steals and Nunu Agara scored 12 and pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the market decline has pulled down the value of Americans' investments, from college to retirement plans.
    March 25, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • It was demolished to make way for a 7,000 square-foot gallery that opened in April 2022 at MCASD.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The building appears to have been demolished with twisted metal, bricks and other debris littering the site.
    Moriah Thomas, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The Front Range shattered it by 22,913 patrons.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The next day, an explosion shattered the glass-and-marble lobby of the Bank of America building in New York.
    Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan on April 3, 1948, a American initiative to help nations devastated by World World II rebuild.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Look, if this had happened in my third season playing this character, I’d be devastated.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Ruinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruinated. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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