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.
• But what starts as a trend may quickly descend into… You’ve been warned.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2022
• As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended on the mountain of Zion.
  — Ron Swain, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• Both mansions open to grassy lawns that descend to a private dock on Biscayne Bay.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Gather around the enormous Christmas tree and turn your eyes toward the sky to witness fluffy foam flakes descend.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
• Ease yourself down the long metal staircases that descend into an enormous but well-hidden pit in the forest.
  — Scott Hewitt, oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2022
• More than a million people are expected to descend on London for all the funeral events.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
• As the Dean of Windsor recites a final psalm, the whole platform will descend into the royal vault.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• Others descended the staircase wearing their tiaras, supplied by V Muse.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2024
• The winter chill has descended on Indiana and most Hoosiers already have experienced the first snow of the season.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024
• But residents got an eye-opening look into what the area could descend into when the minor-league baseball season was canceled in 2020.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Each year more than six million visitors descend upon Munich, site of the original and longest-running Oktoberfest.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024