The phrase "ashes and rubble" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the remnants of destruction, often in the context of a disaster or ruin.
Example: "After the earthquake, the city was left in ashes and rubble, a stark reminder of the devastation that had occurred."
Alternatives: "debris and ashes" or "ruins and remnants".
Susan made herself stare at the ashes and rubble in the vast pit where the Trade Center had once stood.
Families were removing the ashes and rubble from their homes, but there were now empty rooms, where children once slept.
By the time the president made his latest tirade against white "imperialist" farmers, their own farmsteads were no more than a pile of ashes and rubble.
She immediately put her four children and 10 grandchildren to work cleaning the ashes and rubble from their house and fix piping to their well.
Neorealism – which fancied real locations, amateurs in most roles, and a realistic depiction of everything ignored by the Mussolini era's frothy cinema dei telefoni bianchi (white telephone films) – arose from the ashes and rubble of the German retreat in 1944-5, and was a cinematic equivalent to all the reawakening leftist tendencies so long suppressed by Il Duce.
However, it can also provide millions of people with a torch than can reduce the very idea you have spent months – maybe years – concocting to ashes and rubble.
Entire neighborhoods have been reduced to ash and rubble.
Her town had been reduced to ash and rubble.
Dense clouds of hot ash and rubble rumble down those slopes like freight trains and just gain momentum as they go.
And moving back into a world of ash and rubble would entail substantial health risks, especially for someone with breathing issues, as Mr. Cayer well knows.
The victim, Josaphat Pierre-Louis, 71, was working at a Long Island recycling yard for the Jamaica Ash and Rubble Removal Company yesterday morning when he stepped behind the truck.
