lie in ruins造句
1. The town lay in ruins after years of bombing.
2. The city lay in ruins after the earthquake.
3. The town lay in ruins.
4. His career is/lies in ruins.
5. The town now lay in ruins .
6. His country's economy lies in ruins.
7. The castle now lies in ruins.
8. Their plans for a comeback now lie in ruins.
9. The town lay in ruins after a heavy bombardment.
10. The church now lies in ruins.
11. Now the town lay in ruins.
12. Large rural areas lay in ruins.
13. The abbey lies in ruins today and its celebrated relic has disappeared without trace.
14. It was to lie in ruins for another sixty-one years.
15. He thought the surrounding towns must lie in ruins now, too.
16. While outside the great capital city lay in ruins, inside there remained at least a semblance of discipline and control.
17. Elizabeth Jarvis said it was like St Paul's Cathedral, miraculously saved while all around it lay in ruins.
18. The centrepiece was a gradual revaluation of the lira against the dollar-a strategy which now lies in ruins.
19. Abingdon's trade had been waning for some time, with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538.
20. Our plans lie in ruins.
21. Most irrigation canals and water storage systems lie in ruins, and in 1992 the national gene bank was destroyed.
22. Pictured Wednesday, homes lie in ruins after a tornado blew through Pratt City, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama (see map), earlier in the day.
23. I have said, and I say again, that Trantor will lie in ruins within the next five centuries.
24. By the eighteen thirties, cotton planters believed that without slavery, the whole economic system of the south would lie in ruins.
25. Decades of war and the devastation caused by the Taliban when they conquered the area after strong resistance mean parts of the town still lie in ruins and tourist amenities are basic.
26. While so much of the southern parts of this country lie in ruins, this city of high-rises and tree-lined boulevards appears mostly unscathed, a tribute, many say, to its strict building codes.
27. I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
28. Guachang was one such city, and Jiaohe was another, but today they lie in ruins.