The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.
Had I created all my characters and places up front may have ruined the whole thing.
The ground is slick with grease and mangy dogs sniff around my feet, but I'm too ruined to care.
Finally "Granny", small and plump, still wearing defiantly high heels, totters through the metal detector, her hands vainly clutching her ruined hairstyle.
The Ultra-Leftist line was a line that would have wrecked a country, ruined the people, and led to the destruction of the Party and national subjugation.
For instance, The unluckiest person was Romanian athlete Durakan. It was caused by the ignorance of the team doctor. It ruined her one gold medal. The newspaper called her the "pathetic Durakan".
Continual rain ruined the crops.
The ambush ruined, the firefight began.
He painted canvases that look like ruined walls - rough, torn and stained.
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet Birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
The potential for litigation may be greatest in the ruined mountain landscape of Guizhou province in the southwest, where mercury has been mined for centuries.
When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, then Sardinia, then Africa.
The island has been ruined by tourism.
"Bought her I did, and the price has ruined me.
It was by his advice that my father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him.
13. If Mr. Liang's lofty programme were followed, not only would socialism be impossible in China, but our parties (the other parties as well as the Communist Party) and our country would all be ruined.
The rain ruined my painting.
He is arrested for drunkenness and the resultant publicity ruined his career.
Pointing skyward, the wall of this ruined Viking church still stands after a thousand winters, near the town of Vallentuna, Sweden.
He is practically ruined.
Nobody likes poison ivy, the irritating vine that has ruined many an otherwise pleasant outdoor experience.
Yet this would not be the first time that a dominant man, blinded by the habit of abuse and the arrogance of power, had thrown it all away and ruined the people unfortunate enough to cross his path.
Forrest: No. I think I ruined your roommate's bathrobe.
Between la Courtille and Saint-Laurent, your eye had already noticed, on the summit of an eminence crouching amid desert plains, a sort of edifice which resembled from a distance a ruined colonnade, mounted upon a basement with its foundation laid bare.
But when they reached the pole on Jan. 17, their celebration was ruined by the black flags Amundsen and his team had placed there about five weeks earlier.
More requirements are not better, and many a solution has been ruined by having too many features.
He has ruined his country. He has the ruthless, delusional fanaticism of a clever man who is frightened of being toppled—and perhaps put on trial for his copious human-rights abuses.
They are ruined, and there are millions of them.
The ruined economy is barely breathing.
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