Definition: 1. Move downward and lower. 2. Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example.
Use 'descend' in a sentence:
1. She would never descend to baseness.
2. One day depression descended upon him, and wherever he went after that he could never throw it off.
3. An uneasy calm descended on the area.
4. The plane began to descend.
5. Hundreds of football fans descended on the city.
6. It expels gas to descend, and expels water from trim bladders to rise.
7. "How can you dare," said she with angry look, "descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief?"
8. 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money.
9. The plane was descending.
10. They descended from the plane into a forest of microphones and cameras.
11. In future, astronauts will be required to descend from a spaceship while it is still in space and return to it.
12. The results are expressed in descending numerical order.
13. We're not going to descend to such methods.
14. When the water level was high, the user needed only to descend a few steps to reach it; when it was low, several levels would have to be negotiated.
15. A wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) of which the male has a green head and neck. Most domestic ducks descend from the mallard.
16. A reverent hush descended on the multitude.
17. Ended to allly, cover up to descend a little hope.
18. Whether they are a peculiar sister group, or the ur-snake from which all others descend?
19. However, the ground water table tends to descend, accounting for 62 % of the cities and regions.
20. Bob and his girl friend descend on us for the weekend.
21. The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
22. If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden.
23. Blessed silence and relief descend.
24. At this point the path descends steeply.
25. Calm descended on the crowd.
26. Some 3,000 city officials will descend on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby for more money.
27. He claims to be descended from a Spanish prince.
28. A rain of stones descended on the police.
29. The pilots were told to descend to 2-2,000 feet.
30. Night descends quickly in the tropics.
31. I never descend to such meanness.
32. I didn't expect him to descend to personal abuse.
33. He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos.
34. The instruction actually meant 22,000 feet, but they thought they heard descend 2,000 feet.
35. Planes must zigzag from one ground beacon to the next, and ascend and descend in steps at each stage obtaining permission from the ground.
36. Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airfield.
37. Domestic chickens are descended from jungle fowl of Southeast Asia.
38. She told us she was descended from some Scottish Lord.
39. A hush descended over the waiting crowd.
40. With a great cry, the stone clubs descend.
41. Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky.
42. She descended one flight of stairs.
43. These divine beings descend to earth and mate with female humans.
44. From there, the episodes descend into chaos.
45. As you descend, suddenly you see at last the hidden waterfall.
46. This morning I simply dived into deep water off the rocks nearest to the house, where they descend almost sheer.
47. As they descend the hill like madmen running a race, he falls.
48. Things are cooler and more damp as we descend to the cellar.
49. The pain is beginning to lift, I am beginning to feel a descend upon me.
50. Keep the drill steady while it ascends and descends.
51. You can be forced to descend along the cliff edge.
52. The country was descending into chaos.
53. I hope the grace of God would descend on me.
54. She descended the stairs slowly.
55. The results, ranked in descending order (= from the highest to the lowest) are as follows:
56. With a thin scream, like a tea-kettle whistle, the medusa starts to descend.
57. They descended to the level of personal insults.
58. Curious tourists and reporters from around the globe are descending upon the peaceful villages.
59. The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags.
60. It would need to deploy a parachute, descend through the clouds and transmit a GPS coordinate to a cell phone tower.
61. She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.
62. The pilots did descend to the wrong altitude then, thinking they were following the air controllers' instructions.
63. All the other ingredients, including water, have to be listed in descending order by weight.
