1.   The words had ruined a ruined life.

2.   He is left now to think about a ruined hospital and ruined lives, about friends taken by police.

3.   He is sorry for what he did at Barings Bank but he wants to start over and rebuild his ruined life, he said.

4.   His journey ended precisely as it had a decade ago in a nightmarish cacaphony of screeching tires, wailing sirens, shattered glass and ruined lives.

5.   Hurt internalizes Rochester more than usual, and this choice at least brings us into the pain Rochester feels over his ruined life.

6.   It is both cruel and selfish because it glides over the ruined lives of those who abuse drugs, legally or not.

7.   Mexico today is filled with stories of ruined lives and broken dreams.

8.   Numb with grief, he aimlessly drives the city streets to ponder his apparently ruined life.

9.   Some of the stories of ruined lives brought tears to my eyes.

10.   The novel revolves around the power monomania of three generations of Behl family men, whose burning ambitions leave an ash heap of ruined lives and unrealized potential.