reduced to ashes
Example Sentences
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Tsang said that "some remains have already been reduced to ashes" and that it was possible that some of the people reported missing will not be recovered.
From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025
A mayor told Greek television that more than 7,000 acres of land was reduced to ashes along a coast, where many Athenians have holiday homes.
From Reuters • Jul. 18, 2023
“It’s a simple choice,” Guillaume Delbar, the mayor of Roubaix, where the headquarters of a digital company was reduced to ashes during the riots, told the French media this week.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023
On the penultimate night, a wooden effigy known as "the Man" is reduced to ashes.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2022
The house where she lived with the grandmother who had raised her was reduced to ashes.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
