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.
• 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
• The pair fall into a dark romance while Corey starts to descend deeper into his own bloody impulses.
  — Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• Significantly, the prophecy claims that this prince must descend from the Targaryen line.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Oct. 2022
• His attackers descended on him, hammering his face, kicking and stomping him.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
• Erik Kain One final day before Halloween and all its spooky-sweet goodness descends upon us like a swarm of bats.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• Or a random long weekend in spring before the tourists descend — and your work schedule likely picks up — to show them some of Alaska’s prettiest haunts.
  — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
• If world leaders descend on the capital, as expected, there will also be a huge security operation.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• Bassett’s ferocious work will undoubtedly descend upon a wide-open Oscar race for best supporting actress.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 3 Nov. 2022
• This weekend, hundreds of amateur bakers will descend on the northern Italian city of Treviso with mascarpone and ladyfingers at the ready.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• As the cold days descend upon us, the rhythms of the city change.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Turn right through a doorway and descend a flight of stairs.
  — Danielle Dutton, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Atypical Critics features autistic food critics who descend upon restaurants to assess chefs and their three-course meals.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024