The phrase "smashed to pieces" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to an object that has been destroyed, such as "the vase was smashed to pieces when it fell off the shelf."
Soon, it appeared, the racket would be smashed to pieces.
But when Haiyan struck, those developments were smashed to pieces.
When the love affair is eventually smashed to pieces, the reader feels not schadenfreude but relief.
The result for the small country, unfortunately, appears to be that it is smashed to pieces.
There were 257 people smashed to pieces on the mountainside amid an overpowering smell of kerosene.
These are things that, if taken care of and not smashed to pieces, will outlast me.
Fires break out inside vessels, and stuff outside is smashed to pieces.
Redknapp said: "I don't think you can be too open otherwise you get smashed to pieces.
"It's like the city's been smashed to pieces by greed,'' she said.
There was a piano, too, but that would be smashed to pieces.
In a mass spectrometer, the molecules are literally smashed to pieces by an electric charge.
