How to Use ascendancy in a Sentence

ascendancy

noun

• The night at the Palazzo marked the apex of Mr. Low’s ascendancy.
  — Bradley Hope, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2018
• Along with a well-over-six-figure salary, the new role seemed to come with a sense of ascendancy.
  — Clare Caldera, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• This is either a chorus for the damned — or the sound of pork's ascendancy.
  — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• This is either a chorus for the damned — or the sound of pork’s ascendancy.
  — Caitlin Dewey, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• Or the wild ascendancy of Ashley Judd, who plays young Vivi, as one of the lady movie stars of this era.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022
• New elites—Jews from Arab lands, the Orthodox, the right wing—are in ascendancy.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2018
• The industry is very mad at Apple for this, but the iPod’s ascendancy is there.
  — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 17 Jan. 2023
• The recent ascendancy of the right takes elements that were always present and twists them in new ways.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• In different times during the game, both teams were in the ascendancy.
  — Mike Gramajo, Pro Soccer USA, 28 Apr. 2018
• England should be able to press their ascendancy if the Belgium game is anything to go by.
  — SI.com, 23 June 2018
• With the ascendancy of the NFL and its move to embrace black players, that bargain became a Sunday truce of its own.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• Eventually, this would lead to the ascendancy of the cassette tape and the Walkman.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017
• Even some on the Eastside would love to see the city stumble and help those suburbs regain their ascendancy.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile on the left, the radical wing has also been on the ascendancy.
  — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2022
• The move confirms the ascendancy of Mr. Pichai, who is 47, as one of tech’s most powerful people.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• Bayern Munich were in the ascendancy before half-time, and the game followed that same script after the break.
  — SI.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• With Ajax in the ascendancy, the best chance of the match fell to Michy Batshuayi, only for the substitute to blaze a glorious effort over the bar when in front of goal.
  — SI.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• The idea that these kinds of hot-button issues mean instant death for Democrats dates to the 1980s and the conservative ascendancy.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• But, in the coming months, his rapid ascendancy in the renewable-energy cosmos might make the boast seem less of a joke.
  — James Rainey, NBC News, 11 June 2017
• The ascendancy of climate politics has helped the Greens’ rise.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• None of this is to make light of the sinister anti-Semitic strain in the ascendancy of alt-right ideology.
  — Simon Schama, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
• And yet, in response to our worries about the Next Big Thing in tech, we’re fed either Kurzweil-style sermons about the ascendancy of our species, or fresh prophecies of doom.
  — Mike Pearl, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• Factor in the BlackRock ascendancy, and what lies ahead is not difficult to guess.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 11 Dec. 2020
• Ronald Reagan’s ascendancy in the GOP changed the party’s attitude, and the country’s.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Ronald Reagan’s ascendancy in the GOP changed the party’s, and the country’s, attitude.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• After an even opening to the game, Madrid were in the ascendancy on the stroke of half-time with Casemiro going close with his 20-yard strike however went inches wide.
  — SI.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• For her part, Wu sees her ascendancy as a chance to help attract new voices to public service.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• Maybe the dish’s ascendancy can be traced to cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi.
  — Rick Nelson, charlotteobserver, 20 Mar. 2018
• Graham was a major critic of Trump during his ascendancy to President in 2016.
  — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 18 Aug. 2024
• The Haitian Revolution in the early nineteenth century and its slaughter of whites shaped the Cuban political landscape; many whites saw the drive for sovereignty as synonymous with Black ascendancy.
  — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024