Sentence example with the word 'descend'

descend

advance, change, degenerate, drop off, go round, lead, move over, progress, shift, swoop, wane

Definition v. move downward and lower

Last update: February 7, 2016


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They descended from the stairs rather quietly.   [adjective]

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Steep steps descend from the west of the rock, beyond the city walls to the restless river.   [adverb]

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They descend like flies wherever there 's a fast buck to be made.   [verb]

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Hawkeye moved away from the lookout, and descended, musing profoundly, to the shore.   [verb]

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As soon as this change was made, the leader made signs to the prisoners to descend and enter.   [verb]

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Heyward assisted the sisters to descend, and in a few minutes they were all far down a mountain whose sides they had climbed with so much toil and pain.   [verb]

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Angela descended from the witness-box falteringly, and would perhaps have fallen but for her father's strong grasp, which clutched her arm as she reached the last step.   [verb]

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De Malfort went on fooling with Lady Lucretia, whose lovely hand and arm, her strongest point, descended upon a card now and then, to indicate the play she deemed wisest.   [verb]

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Stoutly grumbling thus, the elder and far heavier Admiral descended the hill to the white gate slowly, as behooved the owner.   [verb]

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And to upset all the State, the King, the House of Lords, and the Parliamentary House, and all as is descended from the Romans.   [verb]

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, and who by the less vouched, yet plausible tradition of the country, is said to have been descended from the Marmor of Clochnaben.   [verb]

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