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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But what starts as a trend may quickly descend into… You’ve been warned.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2022
• 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
• But what had caused the great ice sheets to descend, carrying all before them?
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the West Bank during Christmas week were nowhere to be found.
  — Jalal Bwaitel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025