How to Use descend from in a Sentence
descend from
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Or is the plan to have Brady descend from the owners’ box to save the day?
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
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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
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Small fingers of swirling wind began to descend from the cloud wall.
—David Gelles, New York Times, 19 July 2024
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The Elle pendant descends from an 18-inch strand of 3mm rounded turquoise beads.
—Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Blonde waves descended from the ponytail on the crown of her head towards her mid-back.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 11 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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The plane was descending from an altitude of 7,000 feet when the crash occurred.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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About two-thirds are refugees, descended from the Palestinians expelled in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
—Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
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While he was descended from Confederates, he was born in Brazil, not the United States.
—New York Times, 16 May 2023
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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
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Even today, nearly half of all lab rats descend from the original Wistar colony.
—WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
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The two species descended from a common ancestor but are now distinct species.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The 76-year-old Trible descends from an old Virginia family.
—Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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All birds descended from dinosaurs, and some of the earliest ones resembled them.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
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Then there’s second-choice Tapit Trice, second choice in the morning line at 3-1, looking to become the fifth son of Tapit to win the Belmont over the past decade, as one of six horses in the race descending from the stallion.
—Stephen Edelson, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2023
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Reuss descends from the House of Reuss, which controlled a portion of eastern Germany until the formation of the modern country after 1918.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
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Her family tradition holds that she is descended from the Croatoans and that there might be English in her bloodline as well.
—Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
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At least one person appeared to use a rope made from bedsheets to descend from a window onto a lower level terrace.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
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The water world includes a massive humpback whale that swims above the arena while several jellyfish descend from the rafters.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
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Tanaka is descended from kalo farmers who worked the land in Lahaina before the arrival of Westerners.
—John Wogan, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024
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