Sentence Examples

  • It was finally destroyed by Glendower, was a "ruinous building" when seen by Leland (1536) and has since wholly disappeared.
  • Under these circumstances the narrowing of the band is paid for at a ruinous price, and the arrangement must be condemned altogether.
  • The ancient chapel adjoining, also ruinous, was a burial-place of the Murrays.
  • Briihl must therefore be held wholly responsible for the ruinous policy which destroyed the position of Saxony in Germany between 1733 and 1763; for the mistaken ambition which led Frederick Augustus II.
  • The results were ruinous to France.
 
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