reduce to ashes in a sentence

Examples

1. It was just another night on the women's tour, a perfectly fine tennis player reduced to ashes.
2. South Africa, where apartheid has been reduced to ash but violence is just as oppressive and mindless.
3. The fire reduced to ashes more than 100 shops stocked with electronic goods, clothing, candy and food.
4. The walnut-wood shrine was reduced to ashes in a battle between separatist Muslim militants and Indian troops.
5. The fabric can be reduced to ashes, but the ideals for which it stands cannot be destroyed.
6. My house was reduced to ashes.
7. Furniture has been reduced to ashes.
8. Christine Daugherty's Big Bend Road home, where she'd lived for more than 25 years, was reduced to ashes.
9. Military transport planes ferried in rice, food and other essential commodities after several markets were reduced to ashes.
10. Meanwhile, Japanese cities are being reduced to ashes by uncounted thousands of conventional fire bombs and other explosives.