Synonyms

1. blasting

Sentence Examples

1. The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me, were its complete retirement, being, about two miles from the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, and separated from the highway by a broad field its bounding on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the spring, though that was nothing to me the gray color and ruinous state of the house and barn, and the dilapidated fences, which put such an interval between me and the last occupant the hollow and lichen-covered apple trees, gnawed by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbors I should have but above all, the recollection I had of it from my earliest voyages up the river, when the house was concealed behind a dense grove of red maples, through which I heard the house-dog bark.
2. I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher.
3. Indeed, to say the truth, what little of its former self may then remain, will be found in so desolate and ruinous a state that the patriarch shall have removed his residence to Damascus.
4. I could not forbear admiring at these odd appearances, both in town and country and I made bold to desire my conductor that he would be pleased to explain to me what could be meant by so many busy heads, hands, and faces, both in the streets and the fields, because I did not discover any good effects they produced but on the contrary, I never knew a soil so unhappily cultivated, houses so ill-contrived and so ruinous, or a people whose countenances and habit expressed so much misery and want.
5. I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered.
6. To breathe it for more than an hour, at the farthest, would be a matter of impossibility, or, if even this term could be extended to an hour and a quarter, the most ruinous consequences might ensue.
7. According to the signal-man, it was in a ruinous condition, several of the iron wires being broken and it was impossible to risk the passage.