half-ruined

And so, when we see a painting or some other work of art — the remnants, say, of some half-ruined memorial statue, in some empty square, at the edge of a red-light district in Brussels — we are seeing not the illegible signs of a lost culture.

Things Mean Things 2009

"Just the same, it's wonderful," Saxon mused, gazing at the big, half-ruined adobe structure.

CHAPTER VI 2010

Industrial parks and marinas sit abandoned and half-ruined.

Portugal's Unrepentant Debtor Raymond Zhong 2011

“I try—” she began, and then looked the way he was looking; down under the hill where lay a little, half-ruined cabin.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Behind the swaying body, and down where the little, half-ruined cabin lay, a single flame flashed up amid the far-off shout and cry of the mob.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

It was a small temple of Tibetan Buddhism now in a bleak, half-ruined state.

“The Wheel of Samsara,” a new short story by Han Song Paul 2010

That might help deal with the idea we otherwise seem to have of a military base functioning out of a half-ruined fort.

Birdoswald Roman Fort: post-Roman activity on the site Carla 2010

Sun-scorched, half-ruined, the nadir in shabbiness, those stuccoed caverns were full of wrinkled oldsters who smelled awful and had bulging bags under their eyes and nicotine stains on their teeth and fingers.

Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

Beginning with "The Hunger Games" (2008) and "Catching Fire" (2009), Ms. Collins has told the story of teenagers in the half-ruined, authoritarian state of Panem who are forced to fight deadly gladiatorial games for the pleasure of TV viewers.

Growing Up in the Future 2010

Over his four collections he has evolved a style unsurpassed in its responsiveness to the scarred, half-ruined wilderness of the post-industrial northeast, with its rusted factories and mildewed suburbs superimposed on primeval forest.

The Spot by David Means – review James Lasdun 2010