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The phrase "in complete ruin" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is completely destroyed or in a state of disrepair. Here are some examples of how it could be used in a sentence: - After the hurricane, the town was left in complete ruin. - The abandoned building was in complete ruin, with broken windows and collapsed walls. - The once beautiful garden was now in complete ruin, overgrown and neglected. - The war had left the country's economy in complete ruin. - The company went bankrupt and its reputation was in complete ruin.
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Gloria, 23, Lancashire After the battle with the Night King is all over, Westeros will be in complete ruin.
America's financial system was in complete ruin.
Let's face the music: the current Iraqi government is an utter failure, our aid dollars are going to waste, and many of the development projects critical to bring Iraq back are in complete ruin.
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"It was in complete ruins and there was no architecture, no buildings and not even a city," he is quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
It is said that due to the depletion of natural resources, overpopulation, and the failure of the Space Exploration Project, humanity has virtually eradicated itself through biological and nuclear warfare, turning a once prosperous civilization into complete ruin, cast in darkness and poisoned by constant rain from nuclear fallout.
To the Editor: Regarding "36 Hours in Warsaw" (Aug. 16): When I left that city at the end of the uprising in 1944, it was in a complete ruin, with only a few enclaves of the German occupying force remaining intact.
The grinding, near apocalyptic, conflict in Syria means that images of protestors filling the streets of Homs in 2011 have been replaced by those of a city in virtual complete ruin.
More complete ruin and decay were never seen in a newspaper office.
It was a complete ruin.
Kosygin's son-in-law notes that Kosygin was furious with the decision, and proclaimed increased defence expenditure would become the Soviet Union's "complete ruin".
That's right, Amazon.com, that great bright beacon of modern commerce has left an $1,800 TV order in complete and utter ruin.
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