half-ruined

British  

adjective

1. badly damaged, decayed, or ruined

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Example Sentences

Nestled among half-ruined buildings were the headquarters of institutions previously unknown to Saraqib: a poetry forum, a comedy troupe, a theatre company.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

At a half-ruined hospital in Palu, two dozen patients lay in beds outside, some under the shade of trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2018

Instead he walked from one half-ruined crusader castle to another, carrying only his camera, a water bottle, a German pistol and a dog-eared copy of Baedeker’s “Handbook to Palestine and Syria.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2015

To Mustafa Taha, shepherding his family of nine back to their half-ruined house in Beit Hanoun, in Gaza's battered northern tier, the suffering of these past weeks seemed pointless.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2014

Once, in his wanderings, he found himself under the walls of a half-ruined Greek town, which had been attacked, the day before, by a horde of Scythian barbarians.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel