ruin

01. A sudden rainstorm [ruined] our picnic.

02. All our photographs were [ruined] when my little boy accidentally opened my camera.

03. Clarence Darrow once joked that the first half of our life is [ruined] by our parents, and the second half by our children.

04. She [ruined] her new dress when she accidentally spilt nail polish on it.

05. The engagement party was [ruined] when Patricia and her fiancé had a big fight in the middle of it, and decided to break up.

06. We visited the [ruins] of a Roman theater during our visit to the region.

07. The cake was [ruined] when she accidentally put a cup of salt in it instead of sugar.

08. There is a Korean proverb which states that if there is a rich man in the area, three villages are [ruined].

09. There is a Romanian proverb which suggests that abundance, like want, [ruins] many.

10. Tourists can take the Central Railway in Peru to visit the Incan [ruins] of Machu Picchu.

11. Trying to read in the dark will not [ruin] your eyes, despite what your mother told you.

12. By 1979, when the revolution had ended in Cambodia, the country lay in [ruins].

13. Cuzco is an ancient city located high in the Peruvian Andes, and is the site of many Incan [ruins].

14. There is an African proverb which states that the [ruin] of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

15. In the year 64 A.D., a great fire left most of the city of Rome in [ruins].

16. By the end of World War Two, the economies of many of the nations around the globe lay in [ruins].

17. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the political power of Venice was in decline and the city was headed for economic [ruin].