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ruination

How to use ruination in a sentence

If the system of charging by time in place of piece-work is adopted it will mean ruination to many business-men.

Too many civilians mixed up in military affairs have nearly been the ruination of the United States during this Rebellion.

The worst you'd get would be a flogging; but it means ruination to the husband.

Right here from somewhere in the impending clutter of nondescript ruination we heard many voices singing all together.

Carried to the last degree, it would mean ruination; for no provision is made for declines in the market, and resulting losses.

At that very moment, he was pursuing the glittering, attractive bait which later proved to be his utter ruination.

And I truly felt that his plans wus liable any time to be the death of him, and the ruination.

SWEET CICELYJOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE: MARIETTA HOLLEY

These wine rooms were the downfall and ruination of hundreds of innocent girls.

But if the filth of her existence should gradually roll from her upon him, would she not be his evil demon, his ruination?

But on this day he chose to preach a ferocious harangue against divorce as the chief peril, the ruination of modern society.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985