descend
Example Sentences
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A young boy wearing short pants and a baseball cap stands in overgrown grass looking at the empty frame from which—amazingly—a blurred figure is descending.
He scaled the summit and descended on the other side, leaving Kerstin behind.
From BBC
This has become a common — and increasingly controversial — side of high-profile crime investigations: armies of amateur sleuths descending into a community and creating friction with police.
From Los Angeles Times
But too often, they have descended into acrimony as companies and governments argued over specs or who would get the bulk of the contracts.
Dozens of people have now descended on the area and have been digging up the fenced area where the cows were once penned in, hoping to strike it rich.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
