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

On dirait que c'est un projet form� d'�teindre ici les lettres, de ruiner le commerce de librairie et de nous r�duire � la besace et � la stupidit�...

From Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Cushing, Max Pearson