How to Use "ruinous" with Example Sentences

1. It might be polite , but it is also ruinous .
2. The cost of these captive markets is ruinous .
3. The lethargic pace has been ruinous for new orleans and its hard-hit suburbs .
4. Many of myanmar 's generals have built fortunes on this kind of ruinous exploitation .
5. Some economists believe that the light taxation of land in japan contributed to its ruinous asset-price bubble in the 1980s .