lay in ruins

Was some damn newspaper , concerned only with printing a sensational one- day story , about to lay in ruins all his work and dreams ?

Three days later, when firefighters put out the last of the flames, some 500 blocks lay in ruins.

They saw by the light of the moon that part of the city lay in ruins .

All other great powers lay in ruins, while America itself was unscathed by bombing or invasion.

China's economy, which lay in ruins in the late 1970s after the failed Cultural Revolution, has developed faster than any in history.

The force of the blast was so massive it also brought down the Balousha family's house, which yesterday lay in ruins.

In 480 BC, Athens lay in ruins conquered by the seemingly unstoppable Persian Empire.

The whole city lay in ruins after the earthquake, which made us lying awake all night.

The whole city, 75% of whose factories and buildings were gone, lay in ruins.

After the big fire, the whole building lay in ruins.

In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.

Our economy lay in ruins, and we had little capacity to provide basic services.

After the typhoon, the whole town lay in ruins.

All our hopes for the future lay in ruins.