Example Sentences

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I worry if I leave now on bad terms I will have ruined everything, and family is really important to me!

From Slate • May 4, 2020

If you try this, I will have ruined all other bagged popcorn for you.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2019

He told the printers, “If we can’t get that quality of red, we will have ruined the entire effect just as a sour note from the trumpet can spoil a lovely piece of music.”

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2015

By the end of Twitter's seventh birthday, tweeters will have ruined the celebration by claiming that March Madness brackets are inherently sexist and Peeps are against gay marriage.

From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2013

"It is so much your concern that if you commit so egregious a blunder as to denounce yourself, you will have ruined yourself, without materially benefitting me."

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael