We found 20 examples of how to use descend in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 20 of 20.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Let's descend the slope. | |
| 2. | I didn't expect his behavior to descend to such a disagreeable level. | |
| 3. | Humans descend from apes. | |
| 4. | Tom started to descend the stairs. | |
| 5. | Americans descend from immigrants, and they are very patriotic. | |
| 6. | The plane began to descend. | |
| 7. | All my dreams will descend to reality. | |
| 8. | I will willingly go away with thee, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with thee a skein of silk every time that thou comest, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and thou wilt take me on thy horse. | |
| 9. | A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel. | |
| 10. | I'm not sure I can descend from there. | |
| 11. | Mary was the first to descend from the ship. | |
| 12. | Those mountains are molehills, if compared with the waves of the sea. As often as we were lifted up high, one might have touched the moon with a finger. As often as we were let down, we seemed to descend directly into hell, the earth gaping. | |
| 13. | Berbers don't descend from Arabs. | |
| 14. | Out of the cloudy skies over Wiesbaden, Germany, on a warm June day, gifts descend from the heavens, dropping like rain onto the fields below, much to the delight of hundreds of children waiting on the ground. | |
| 15. | Algeria won't descend into anarchy. | |
| 16. | Some fascists like Lakhdar Benkoula, Naima Salhi, Noureddine Khettal, and the separatists want Algeria to descend into a civil war. | |
| 17. | Some fascists like Lakhdar Benkoula, Naima Salhi, Noureddine Khettal, the separatists and the takfirists want Algeria to descend into a civil war, but the Algerian government is ahead of the game. | |
| 18. | English, Russian, and Hindi descend from a common ancestor language. | |
| 19. | English, Russian, Spanish, and Hindi descend from a common ancestor language. | |
| 20. | Bvalltu and I, in company with the increasing band of our fellow explorers, visited many worlds of many strange kinds. In some we spent only a few weeks of the local time; in others we remained for centuries, or skimmed from point to point of history as our interest dictated. Like a swarm of locusts we would descend upon a new-found world, each of us singling out a suitable host. After a period of observation, long or short, we would leave, to alight again, perhaps, on the same world in another of its ages; or to distribute our company among many worlds, far apart in time and in space. |