How to Use descend in a Sentence

descend

verb
Definition of descendnext
Synonyms for descendnext
  • The path descends to the river.
  • The workers descended into the hole.
  • The stairs descended into the tunnel.
  • A herd of goats descended into the valley.
  • Wait for the elevator to descend.
  • The airplane will descend to a lower altitude soon.
  • The children descended the staircase silently.
  • Descending the mountain was even more dangerous than climbing it.
  • As the cold days descend upon us, the rhythms of the city change.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • While Otro does have one ground-floor room, guests have to descend two steps from the lobby to reach it.
    — Catherine Tansey, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The crowds descend, the tourists add it to their lists; then, inevitably, come cries that the place is overrated.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The main focus of the mural shows a fan descending into the city with balloons that spell out the team’s name.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Three globe pendant lights with rods that look like old roller skate keys descend over the island.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • The search-and-rescue team descends with a distressed hiker.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Thousands of people descended on the banks of Lake Champlain to take in the total eclipse.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Biden descended the steps from the helicopter and turned back to extend a hand to Jill Biden, his wife.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Time and again, as warm rain began to descend on the grass court, her searing forehands missed their mark and soared over the baseline.
    — Sally H. Jacobs, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The plane made no attempt to descend on Long Island and appeared to have turned around to head back to Tennessee.
    — Ian Duncan, Dan Lamothe, Emily Davies, Michael Laris and Lori Aratani, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
  • Rivera, on meeting her, decides that his own time is up, and the two artists descend together.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • As the parts descended onto the ocean bed, some crushed on top of one another, including the decks.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Haaland was not watching, either, as the ball reached the apex of its parabola and started to descend.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Just take a minute and revel in the glorious panoply of movies that is descending upon us this fall and winter.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Twice a week, every week, four hundred and thirty street-sweeper trucks descend upon the streets of New York.
    — Timothy Cahill, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The flares were part of a routine training mission, and the lights observed by witnesses were the result of these flares descending in the night sky.
    — The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In less than a year, millions of spectators will descend on the French capital for what is poised to be the event of the decade: the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
    — Lindsey Tramuta, Travel + Leisure, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The Summer Olympics may still be months away, but waiters in Paris are already training for the hungry tourists who will soon descend upon the city.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024
  • LaShawn Smith talks about the night the police descended on the apartment to arrest Keith, as Aubrey slept in another room.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Titan is designed to descend more than 2.5 miles below the surface—far beyond where most sonar can reach.
    — WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • Cold and rainy or sunny and scorching, the course is lined with locals cheering for the strangers who’ve descended on their city with a singular goal.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
  • Fodor and thousands of others who have descended upon Churchill Downs are less than an hour away from the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2023

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