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The phrase "to ruins" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a process of decay or destruction that has reduced an object to a state of ruin. For example: "After the storm, the castle was reduced to ruins."
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Civilian areas have been reduced to ruins.
But in the ensuing years Kabul was reduced to ruins.
Tourists are attracted to ruins of the ancient city and to a commercial resort village.
The early morning earthquake on May 27 reduced the quaint street, Prawirotaman, to ruins.
Even the trees on the battlefield are turned to ruins of their former selves.
It is time to finish them, and to bring them to ruins".
The town was reduced to ruins by the French in 1835, but total control was contested until 1841.
There is no chance that the Turbine Hall will fall to ruins or become a Tate Modern Berlin any time soon.
"It won't be here this time next year".Mr Kaneko remembers trudging through this neighbourhood in March 1945, after American bombers had reduced it to ruins.
No matter that in 1791, after George Washington slept nearby, he described this "Pallace" as "a good brick building but now hastening to Ruins".
Tens of thousands of civilians remain in rebel-held areas of the city, while air strikes and bombardments reduce it to ruins.
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