ruiner

Example Sentences

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It was less a destroyer of worlds and more of a regional ruiner.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Q. Birthday ruiner: I think I behaved badly last night.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2016

They took away Roger Ailes' BlackBerry Esquire's profile of Fox News architect and longtime ruiner of America Roger Ailes is a great read.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2011

There was a ruined uncle in the family group, ruined by his brother, the Father of the Marshalsea, and knowing no more how than his ruiner did, on whom Fanny's protection devolved.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

Je ne connais point la Mine; j’ai trouvé seulement ailleurs un passage qui prouve que ce jeu était tres-dangereux, et qu’on pouvait s’y ruiner en peu de tems.”

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown