Example Sentences
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Ruins of the childhood home of England's Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, are to reopen to the public as a major conservation project continues.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
Ms. Brothers is a professor of art and architecture at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Future Ruins, the hotly-anticipated Nov. 8 film-music festival from Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, has been canceled.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
Several hundred meters away, visitors were enjoying an unusual degree of tranquility at the Ruins of St. Paul’s, originally the 17th century Church of Mater Dei.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023
“Don’t worry. Whoever built this city loved to waste metal. They aren’t called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty discovered them.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
