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Sentence count:204+12Posted:2017-01-02Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: ascentSimilar words: descendcondescendcondescensionsenescentquiescentadolescentphosphorescentobsolescenceMeaning: [dɪ'sent]  n. 1. a movement downward 2. properties attributable to your ancestry 3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction 4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors 5. a downward slope or bend 6. the descendants of one individual. 
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91 Although her descent down the steep incline took several minutes, the queue at the foot remained motionless.
92 I started my descent about a mile away and a thousand feet high.
93 Our Czech hosts knew little about it, save that the approach was long and the descent intricate.
94 We took four hits, and immediately, we went into a rapid descent to elude the machine guns.
95 The ordinary cues for traveling, the visual sense of distance and motion,(http://sentencedict.com/descent.html) are absent during the descent to the seafloor.
96 I lined up on the general area and made a gentle descent into the darkness.
97 The mission plan called for an upper limit on the amount of propellant that could be used during the descent.
98 This shows the line of descent down to three previous owners of Upper Halling.
99 Without a working budget, or a viable rescue plan, the organization continued its disastrous descent into the financial sinkhole.
100 He noticed the change of pitch in the engine noise and the slight tilt of the aircraft as it began its descent.
101 Moreover, he could control his descent, and could come down slower or quicker as he wished.
102 For the Conservatives it was the start of the long descent towards the agony of Black Wednesday.
103 Reduce your rate of descent immediately to bring the needle back towards the circle.
104 All have similarities in settlement pattern and in social organization[Sentencedict.com], with unilineal descent systems and chiefdom organization.
105 There was 9,000 feet of descent to the glacier to prepare for.
106 The Robinson 22 light helicopter was on an auto-gyration practice flight when the tail rotor touched the ground during a steep descent.
107 They were set at irregular intervals so that it was difficult to achieve any rhythm in the descent.
108 The descent of the footpath to Bauen starts in easy fashion but becomes quite steep.
109 On descent he met Wanda at 8,300 metres and helped her arrange a bivouac.
110 He had circulated a document which professed to trace his descent, through his father, from the Prophet.
111 I slip a couple of times during the descent and set rocks running.
112 Unsurprisingly, given its director, the film will be a psychological thriller that focuses on a man's descent into madness.
113 As we began our slithery descent to the shore, a kestrel hovered above the brow of the hill.
114 Rapid descent With increasing speed, the difficulties associated with descent and translation back to hovering flight become more acute.
115 He set his autopilot for the descent and checked his charts for Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.
116 The tracks took him down a constant and slow descent then stopped at an old fence.
117 But there is scant solace to be found in this descent towards lowest common denominators for those who would see genuine reform.
118 He knew they'd be starting their descent in another five minutes.
119 Since buying the cottage, house prices had started on a steady descent.
120 The failure of tomatoes, apples and figs to cross is not some magical property but comes from descent with modification.
More similar words: descendcondescendcondescensionsenescentquiescentadolescentphosphorescentobsolescenceacquiescencebehind the scenesscentascentnascentreminiscenttranscendentscenedescribeacquiesceascenddescartesconvalescescenerydescriptionscenarioCent.prescientescarpmentcentreaccentper cent
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