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
• 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
• 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
• Time and again, as warm rain began to descend on the grass court, her searing forehands missed their mark and soared over the baseline.
  — Sally H. Jacobs, Town & Country, 15 Aug. 2023
• Spring can bring a crowd in March, when spring breakers (of the family variety) descend on the shores and city.
  — Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• The plane made no attempt to descend on Long Island and appeared to have turned around to head back to Tennessee.
  — Ian Duncan, Dan Lamothe, Emily Davies, Michael Laris and Lori Aratani, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
• Two days later, Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism descended on the café and took away the slab.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
• Rivera, on meeting her, decides that his own time is up, and the two artists descend together.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Migrants cross over a mountain, descending on a trail in large groups.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
• Dracula fans descend on Dublin to celebrate the count as well as the one who dreamed him up at the Bram Stoker Festival.
  — Brittany Anas, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
• Its website describes a one-hour tour in which visitors descend 1,000 feet into the earth.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024