How to Use descend from in a Sentence

descend from

phrasal verb

• In the case of birds, one population descended from a single species might use seeds as its main food source.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
• Dicynodonts were therapsids — a large group of animals that mammals also descended from.
  — Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
• Or is the plan to have Brady descend from the owners’ box to save the day?
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• The final drop will see the lander descend from 62 miles to the surface in about an hour on Feb. 23.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2024
• The stock has descended from more than $96 a share a decade ago to barely above $9 a share now.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• Small fingers of swirling wind began to descend from the cloud wall.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 19 July 2024
• The Elle pendant descends from an 18-inch strand of 3mm rounded turquoise beads.
  — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Blonde waves descended from the ponytail on the crown of her head towards her mid-back.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 11 Aug. 2023
• But in the new America, descended from the ’50s, fascism would now be sold with a beat and a smile.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• All the males in the study were descended from a few adult men buried with rich grave goods, assumed to be the founders of the community.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 24 Apr. 2024
• The plane was descending from an altitude of 7,000 feet when the crash occurred.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Bocelli descended from a high silver staircase in the center of the stage, which seemed to point to the sky, starting the show.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 July 2024
• This stretch of trail is a highly used area where hikers descend from the Strawberry Peak loop.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• Since all species on Earth descend from microbes, this line of research would shed new light on the great mysteries of how and where life emerges in the universe.
  — Becky Ferreira, WIRED, 25 June 2024
• About two-thirds are refugees, descended from the Palestinians expelled in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• While he was descended from Confederates, he was born in Brazil, not the United States.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2023
• This four-mile, two-to-three hour loop descends from the rim of Kīlauea Iki crater, through the lush rainforest, and onto the dramatic steaming black lava crater floor.
  — Sunset Magazine, 30 June 2023
• The unusually long length of the ovation was likely due to the cast and Almodóvar descending from the gallery and staying for awhile, clapping along with the crowd.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2024
• Even today, nearly half of all lab rats descend from the original Wistar colony.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• The two species descended from a common ancestor but are now distinct species.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
• The first women’s fencing event had been added to the Olympics a decade earlier, at the 1924 Paris Games, but at the time the sport, which is descended from duels, remained largely the domain of men.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• Its distinctive shape — an upside down Y — was formed by a massive glacier, and the lake is still fed from waters descending from the nearby Alps.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
• At the new turnaround point at East Fork River, a stairwell built last year leads down to the riverbed, where families can descend from buses to explore by foot.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• Then as now, Haitians, who are mostly descended from enslaved Africans brought by colonists, were the poorest people in the Western Hemisphere.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Hark back with us for a moment to the early days of the Jeep Grand Wagoner, which appeared in 1963 as the first of a new breed—a utility vehicle that wasn't descended from a truck.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
• The 76-year-old Trible descends from an old Virginia family.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
• The ad clearly descends from the Übermensch strain of tech-bro braggadocio that defined the halcyon days of the early 2010s, when apps like Yo were going to save the world.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 May 2024
• The team is uncertain whether the six Jamestown dogs are completely descended from native dogs or mixed with English breeds.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
• All three descend from omicron and are offshoots of JN.1, which fueled much of the country’s winter infections.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
• All birds descended from dinosaurs, and some of the earliest ones resembled them.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024