We found 3 examples of how to use ruinous in an English sentence.
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| 1. | Only a poor man knows what such a passion costs in cab-hire, gloves, linen, tailor's bills, and the like. If the Platonic stage lasts a little too long, the affair grows ruinous. | |
| 2. | She explained to the Lord of Ravenswood that they were under the necessity of separating so soon as the bell of a chapel, belonging to a hermitage in the adjoining wood, now long ruinous, should toll the hour of vespers. | |
| 3. | Absolute tolerance is ruinous to a tolerant society. |