descending

Example Sentences

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His monthly ERA reached its zenith at 7.23 in his April starts, descending to its current 4.03 ERA.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

"As I look back up the mountain, as I helped this guy descend, Hillary Dawa didn't appear to have moved, and certainly wasn't descending, because we would have seen his head torch."

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

The stocks are listed in descending order of their surprise, as calculated by LSEG.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

The first promotional teaser didn’t show Ejiofor or Reinsve, only a descending series of increasingly wrong-looking rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

She was descending with Richard to the sea.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin