descending

Example Sentences

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No media coverage of a political campaign would be complete without the small-town diner story featuring salt-of-the-earth folks in John Deere hats descanting their cracker-barrel wisdom about the state of the world.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

“No, of course not. The call note arises out of imitation and then fee various bird songs are developed by repeating the call note and descanting upon it.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Moses Hunn, an old stager, was descanting on the previous night's raid, having first borrowed a chew of long-green tobacco from his nearest neighbor.

From The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky by Wood, Henry C.

Writers are never tired of descanting on the divisions which ruined Rome; but they have not seen that those divisions always existed, and ever must exist in a free community.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

Wherever we went, however grand the domestics, soldiers, or police, Dominico was always high above them, and I could hear him descanting constantly on the wonderful richness of California.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)