How to Use descend in a Sentence

descend

verb

• 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
• As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended on the mountain of Zion.
  — Ron Swain, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• Turn right through a doorway and descend a flight of stairs.
  — Danielle Dutton, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• In the late morning, the cranes started to descend back into the draw.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Indian IPOs are scarce as the end-of-the-year lull descends.
  — Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
• Hosts in the know have the drinks ready to pour before the revelers descend.
  — WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• The four men were on top of a steep ridge of snow and ice, pondering how to descend.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
• That’s good news for bivalve lovers, who descend in droves to shuck and slurp.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2023
• In the third act, the film descends into darkness once again.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
• The descending colon is part of the large intestine and runs down the left side of the abdomen.
  — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Expect routes into the canyon that lack stairs and switchbacks and descend 2,000 feet in the course of a mile.
  — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• In short, the more dryness your strands have, the more frizz is prone to descend chaos upon your look.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 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
• Grizzly Downhill course at 9,289-feet and descend two miles down to the bottom of the run.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
• Nemo can descend to 330 feet and has roughly eight hours of charge on a normal dive.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2022
• As the omen begins to descend onto Karen’s house, the hairs of the mermaids’ arms stand up; their scales twitch in fear.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
• The other team to descend to that was Minnesota in 2011.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Egerton, Plummer and Cave will play some of the all-female cast who descend on the country house ahead of the nuptials.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2022
• But as Miky Lee — the godmother of Korean cinema — approached the microphone, the lights dimmed and the microphone descended into the stage.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
• This is the luge and bobsleigh run built over four decades ago for the Winter Olympics, which were held in Sarajevo in 1984, a moment of glory for Yugoslavia before the country split apart and descended into civil war.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025