ruinously in a sentence
Examples
- Meanwhile, why not do as Dee Dee does and display your ruinously expensive vacuum cleaner in the living room as you would a sculpture?
- Unlike his father, he was a good soldier; but his conquest of Wales, and the attendant castle building, was ruinously expensive.
- Choosing a " small but ruinously expensive " restaurant in Paris called Chez Denis, the two ate and drank their way through thirty-one courses.
- She began feeding the baby formula _ ruinously expensive, at $ 1.50 for a week's supply _ and the baby looks severely malnourished.
- In this spirit of optimism, the city gears up for the Pan American Exposition, a monumental and ruinously expensive celebration of technological advance and human progress.
- Japan fired the first shot in April when it invoked temporary restrictions on imports of Chinese mushrooms and other agricultural products that Japanese farmers say are ruinously cheap.
- As Bray writes : " To talk of an individual of this period as being or not being'a homosexual'is an anachronism and ruinously misleading.
- However, along with the losses incurred from his alum works, this proved to be ruinously expensive and he ran up debts of some ?0, 000.
- The low magnetostriction is critical for industrial applications, allowing it to be used in thin films where variable stresses would otherwise cause a ruinously large variation in magnetic properties.
- The man they helped replace him with was Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator who ruinously ruled over Africa's third largest country with strong Western backing for 32 years.