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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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181 The Airspeed Indicator being the main pitch-support instrument in climb or descent.
182 She lived in Colorado and died at eighty-eight on her descent from her fourteenth climb of Pikes Peak.
183 If the model is set up correctly, it should make a steep descent under full control.
184 The plane had already started its descent when the pilot received orders to abort his landing.
185 The descent to the Main Cliff and Upper tier remains serious,(www.Sentencedict.com) but no workable remedy has been found so far.
186 Descent: Traverse leftwards until easy ground leads down to the road.
187 By proceeding a little further, a scrambling descent to the river bed may be made.
188 Route to summit requires some tough scrambling, before a descent on the grassy northern slopes.
189 However, the descent into generality applies to all words, and is not confined to any one syntactic category.
190 Park and prepare for a moderately difficult two-mile descent along a fire road into the canyon.
191 But the growth in consumer debt should not be simply seen and condemned as a complete descent into mindless consumerism.
192 The confusion over propellant was due to the propellant sloshing about in the tanks during the powered descent.
193 Ernest Hemingway is reputed to have considered the descent from Monte in a toboggan one of the strongest emotions of his life.
194 He had two options, he thought, as the plane began the descent to Brussels.
195 In contrast to the life the researchers had witnessed during their descent, the view was now a barren moonscape.
196 Some primates live in patrilineal rather than matrilineal descent groups.
197 Note the family crest of a crown and an eight-pointed star, symbolizing their alleged descent from one of the three kings.
198 Those advisers who aren't Jewish are of British descent.
199 Many Americans are of English descent.
200 Leonard Woolf was of Jewish descent, the son of a barrister.
201 Sixteen of the youngsters set off for help, but during the descent three collapsed in the cold and rain.
202 It increased slightly from 1979 to 1983, and then resumed its descent.
203 He yearned for wearing a set of descent vesture in front of female schoolmates.
204 The only lasting solution lies in a political settlement. Without it, their descent into chaos will be guaranteed.
More similar words: descendcondescendcondescensionsenescentquiescentadolescentphosphorescentobsolescenceacquiescencebehind the scenesscentascentnascentreminiscenttranscendentscenedescribeacquiesceascenddescartesconvalescescenerydescriptionscenarioCent.prescientescarpmentcentreaccentper cent
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