descended
Example Sentences
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No career plan descended from the Botafumeiro when I arrived in Santiago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Last July, hundreds descended on Australia's Gippsland region from around the country for the most exciting event on the annual table tennis calendar.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
As they descended the stairs, their over-10-story building in the worst-hit state of La Guaira fell to pieces around them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Their goal was to distinguish cells descended from the original population of microglia that had been present since birth from cells descended from blood stem cells in the bone marrow later in life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Anya and Håkon agreed, and the three of them descended a dark flight of stone steps and emerged onto the floor under where they’d stood a moment before.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
