ascend

[əˈsend]

Definition:
1. To rise; to go up; to climb up.
2. Go back in order of genealogical succession.
3. Become king or queen.
4. Go along towards (a river's) source.
5. Slope upwards.

Use 'ascend' in a sentence:

1. The balloon ascended slowly.
2. The climbers slowly ascended the mountain.
3. It's a ladder used to ascend a tree, it's a kind of tool of ascent that's a kind of a tool for getting fruit.
4. The balloon ascended quickly.
5. Is there any way that you can give us a sense of how many people may be expected to ascend over the 11-11-11 period?
6. Wait for a ship's person, wait for one and other, but hesitate always should ascend which ship.
7. So, anchor, ascend, drift back. Do not come back to Three.
8. "Now then," cried he, "let me ascend quickly."
9. We must reinforce our confidence no matter how high the mountain is, one can always ascend to its top.
10. Can I keep my pets as I ascend?
11. And a spiral tower provides different views at every step when visitors ascend the tower.
12. The distribution was the most in the ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon.
13. We watched the airplane ascend higher and higher.
14. The mists are ascending from the valley.
15. The path started to ascend more steeply.
16. Mist ascended from the valley.
17. The story ascends from a gothic tragedy to a miraculous fairy-tale.
18. Mobutu ascended through the ranks, eventually becoming commander of the army.
19. This forced him to ascend directly to the surface.
20. Her heart was thumping as she ascended the stairs.
21. You step on at high school, ascend through college, and step off into a decent paying job.
22. He would ascend to the throne after his brother abdicated (see following slide).
23. The air became colder as we ascended.
24. Stranger still, smoke began at once to ascend.
25. The old man slowly ascended the stairs.
26. We ascended Mt. Tai.
27. The "release value" of taking public assets private can be enormous, says Peter Morris of Ascend, a consultancy.
28. We watched the mists ascending from the valley.
29. Discussion on the Damage Reason and Improving measurement of the Flash Furnace's Ascend Flue Roof.
30. Moore ascended the scaffold and addressed the executioner.
31. These technologies and thus our ability to ascend has not been available to Earth RACES for literally thousands of years.
32. The concept comes from "Dianetics"; it is where you start if you want to ascend to the upper peaks of Scientology.
33. The 26 hotels in its Ascend Collection are more upscale and expensive.
34. We ascend to the raised walkway under the eaves, and wooden doors are slid open to reveal a bare room.
35. They haunt shallow waters like bays and estuaries worldwide-and some species even ascend freshwater rivers.
36. Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in his holy place?
37. His ancestors ascend to the 15th century.
38. Mrs Clayton had to hold Lizzie's hand as they ascended the steps.
39. Sometimes you have to leave your current job to ascend the corporate ladder-- but not always.
40. Then we ascend steeply through forests of rhododendron.
41. Accepting series of numbers, strings from keyboard and sorting them ascending, descending order.
42. A number of staircases ascend from the cobbled streets onto the ramparts.
43. Before ascending to the bench, she was a lawyer in a large New York firm.
44. They move freely from one department to another as they ascend the civil service ladder.
45. Now draw or trace ten dinosaurs in ascending order of size.
46. Planes must zigzag from one ground beacon to the next, and ascend and descend in steps at each stage obtaining permission from the ground.
47. Keep the drill steady while it ascends and descends.
48. The stairs ascended in a graceful curve.
49. Nott and Dickinson set a new altitude record when they ascended 55,900 feet in their balloon.
50. He ascended to the peak of sporting achievement.