descent
Example Sentences
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About 40% of the city’s 80,000 residents are Venezuelan or of Venezuelan descent, and many others hail from across the region.
But standing on the 26th floor with a small child and troublesome knees, she also knew she couldn’t make the descent by stairs.
Born in Germany and of Lebanese descent, Nassar - a Muslim teenager who proudly wore a hijab - would soon find that her greatest challenge lay beyond her family.
From BBC
Craig said: "She faced snow, ice, a blizzard at the summit and a long descent in the dark - but she never once gave up."
From BBC
In addition to 700,000 people of African descent and tens of thousands of native Indians, nearly all the peoples of Western Europe were present in the country.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
