ruinously in a sentence

Examples

1. Having survived fires, an earthquake and that ruinously Californian virus, loss of self-esteem, Oakland is reviving.
2. To hear Airbus and Boeing talk about each other, one would think that each had made a ruinously bad bet.
3. He was unfortunate in his latter years; a speculation turned out ruinously, and he had to sell his copyrights.
4. And something more : These models were the devil to build _ exquisite in detail, breathtaking in finish and ruinously expensive.
5. He doesn't agree with its drug laws and famously, almost ruinously, ran afoul of the Internal Revenue Service.
6. But when he attempted to turn moving pictures into still photos for the album, he found the process to be ruinously expensive.
7. He proposes to continue former Gov . Mario Cuomo's ruinously expensive prison expansion program without seriously testing more cost-effective alternatives.
8. It would be ruinously expensive and difficult to chill a computer's entire motherboard _ the circuit board containing all key electronic components.
9. Breakthroughs loom across the spectrum of severe ( and ruinously expensive ) disease _ from diabetes and birth defects to colon and breast cancer.
10. While visiting London in 1908, deeply despondent and ruinously in debt, she tried to kill herself by drinking an excess of laudanum.