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Sentence Examples It descends to a considerable depth, where it picks up geothermal heat and dissolves minerals. He was a ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a silver ship descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake. We now have to put lights on almost as soon as we get home from work as dusk descends. As Jesus prays, heaven's glory opens and God's Spirit-dove descends upon him. Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance star as a couple whose wordless, adulterous affair descends into paranoia and self-destruction. There is, one might observe, truth in the aesthetic, but truth defined by the aesthetic easily descends into sickly aestheticism. The larynx descends in the throat until the windpipe and foodpipe are lying side by side. It requires understanding, sensitivity and discretion, all of which go out the window when the red mist descends. At least the American went off peaceably this time, the former Rangers player being known not to stop at one card when the red mist descends. Excluded from society, essentially cut out of her aunt's will, Lily descends the social ladder. If the alpha male's amygdala is destroyed, the monkey quickly descends the social scale. During evacuation, the anorectal junction moves down and backwards and the pelvic floor usually descends slightly. As it descends, it progressively courses anteriorly to the crook of the arm, where it is well exposed to a sword-thrust or cut. The thoracic aorta may give rise to a renal artery, which descends through the aortic hiatus. Dripping with sincerity, it descends into mawkish mush with all the profundity of a group hug. A puppy dropped by parachute from a hot-air balloon descends safely into the garden of a secret convent. The femoral artery lies in front of the hip joint and descends along the medial surface of the thigh bone. Rain sheets down, fog descends, soldiers' boots squelch through mud on an endless, agonising climb. One of the film's many strengths is that it never descends into melodrama or sentimentality. The plot's got a great deal of emotional heft to it, but never descends into mindless sentimentalism. Show More Sentences The road rises to pass through mature beech woods and descends to meet the river again at Stepping Stones. A tornado is a funnel-shaped cloud that descends on land, creating havoc and destruction in its wake. There are some antiseptic-blue overtones to it, too, and a whole spectrum of greens where the berg descends into the depths out of sight. The branch bifurcating from the lower orifice of the stomach descends to the deep layer of the abdomen. Fury, on the other hand, descends quickly and unrelentingly into solemn and emotional intensity against mob rule and violence. And when the two women finally trade physical blows, it descends into succession of slaps and upper cuts. The chorus unveils gleaming shards of bombastic wit and cut-throat tuneage before the shroud of unfriendly uber-noise descends once more. Now the vehicle descends, again through numerous hair raising turns and twists. While ostensibly criticizing a return to Muldoonism and the politics of personal destruction, he immediately descends to them himself. She rises and descends with natural ease and skips through a complicated chorus full of rich imagery. An uneasy silence descends in the hire car, and something tells me we need to confer. To this day, a hush invariably descends at noisome mushairas when she stands up to recite her poetry. The trail descends, as stony as a streambed but never smooth, for these rocks are angular, unworn by steadily running water. When he finishes, her sadness descends so quickly, it nearly breaks his heart. As it descends, the sonde reports the sea-level pressure and other data relating to the intensity of the storm. The airliner descends on Tehran through a noxious haze of carbon and nitrogen monoxide, ozone, and sulfur. Conjure descends from West African vodun and appears in these tales as a natural religion that has taken root in the American Southern landscape. This leads past a brown stalagmitic flow on the right, to an iron ladder which descends to the top of East Slope in the Main Chamber. At first merely uninteresting, the ploy eventually descends into slapstick comedy, undermining the prevailing halcyon tone of the work. The little plane descends over the Santa Barbara Channel and lands on the runway above Bechers Bay. Show More Sentences But on the odd occasion they venture outside these extremes, the country descends into chaos. Sometimes the physical instincts are elevated to a spiritual level and often the spiritual being descends to a baser life. A hush descends as the band announces the imminent entry of the first bull. With the boat still making headway, our guide Nico jumps off the platform and immediately descends, trailing a line attached to a second buoy. For example, the heckelphone part in his Alpine Symphony descends to F, four notes lower than the range of any heckelphone ever built! As the film's Orphean tale unfolds, a young writer-poet-musician descends into the absinthe-soaked, decadent underworld in search of ideal love. Sound boxes blare devotional numbers, priests chant mantras and, as evening descends, one can find people of all ages flocking the pandals. As he says this, a sudden chill descends on Penelope Wilton's hitherto friendly Sonya as if he has trodden on her soul. Failing to win the support of his housemates, Mike descends from the roof, giving Clair a nasty shock in the process. But these are no ordinary stairs, they form a precipitous swirly spiral that slowly descends inside an open cavern at the front of the building. A group of officers descends on him, reads the arrest warrant, puts a bag over his head, and claps him in cuffs. In other words, whichever route one takes in this intellectual landscape, it descends into the same perdition. The modern book descends from the codex, not the scroll, and it inherits and develops the advantages of the form. Carlyon's text descends into the psychological realms of the coloniser and the colonised, avoiding the facileness of judgement and condemnation. On the inhalation, the collarbones lift, the diaphragm flattens and descends, pushing out the belly, and the pelvic floor descends. There is no way of defending myself against the inevitable sense of nostalgia that descends in the weeks after Hogmanay. Thus Bridget descends by parachute into a pigsty full of excrement, struggles hopelessly on skis, and gets drenched by passing London lorries. Passing through the cubital region, it descends to the pisiform region proximal to the palm and enters the palm. It becomes superficial and descends with the great saphenous vein along the medial border of the tibia as far as the middle of the instep. No plague of locusts descends, the oceans don't boil over with frogs, and the apocalypse isn't ushered in because of our discovery. Show More Sentences The important point is, it descends from the past and represents a continuity with the past. From out of the blue, a posse of divers with flashguns blazing descends on the scene. As dusk descends, I drive along the high corniche that runs from the airport in the direction of the island's bustling capital. Weber's high back-swing descends in a mild, unforced manner and continues throughout the follow-through in a long, extended fashion. In a minute, I am onto the coast road and following its curl as it descends toward probably the most famous beach in the world. The film's celebration of sheer human daffiness never descends into whimsy. A ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a parachute descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake. What might have been an informative film descends rapidly into ghoulishness and voyeurism. A path descends north from this bealach and snakes over rough ground to a rocky basin, passing between two small lochans. For traffic driving east, the road descends down a gradient of 0.023 through a wooded area with trees overhanging the road on both sides. From the summit, the path descends alongside the wall until a narrow rocky cleft is reached. A young woman descends the stairs from a low, curtained gallery to hand a sheet of music to a cellist waiting downstairs. Anyone who descends to such cheap jibes with nothing more substantial to say is just making himself ridiculous. What Shakespeare actually shows is an England in which the legal framework gradually descends into anarchy. He thinks it is only a matter of time before an invasion force descends upon this island nation in an attempt to force a regime change. One week, the Prime Minister descends on the town to visit the office of a training company. During autumn and winter, darkness descends at about 4pm and the area dies once children have left the two local schools. Rushing down a hallway she hears a burble of conversation and an occasional male guffaw, but as she enters the room utter silence descends. The Spirit washes over us, enlightens us, breathes into our souls, descends without our bidding, sets us on fire. During the first few weeks of June, electronica and experimental techno in the purist sense of the genre descends on Montreal. Show More Sentences Lava moves away from the vent toward the ocean in a network of tubes and descends Pulama pali in several separate tubes. Nothing adds up or makes sense and the plot descends into complete mayhem and rage. It descends without warning, morning or evening and motorists would be well advised to treat warnings with respect. In The Medical Student, for instance, he gives us a blue and white sky that, though light in hue, heavily descends from the top of the canvas in thick, ribbonlike swaths. By 6pm each evening, the village descends into complete darkness. As he descends, his head is turning like the needle of an indecisive compass, his eyes taking in each and every bit of action on the docks below him. The trio agree honesty is the best policy and agree to leave the money where they found it, but an atmosphere of deceit and betrayal soon descends on the household. Air is squeezed out of the ballonets as the gas expands with increasing altitude and forced back in again as the helium contracts when the airship descends. The group took a thrilling helicopter ride over the glacier, which descends some 2,280 feet, terminating in a spectacular icefall that feeds the river. A distinguished playwright who has written a number of fine political dramas, he never descends to the paranoid conspiratorial theories so typical of that genre. This was the oil they used to anoint kings and priests, and that upon John the Baptist anointing Jesus, Jesus sees a vision of God, and the Holy Spirit descends on him. As darkness descends, standing there looking over us, the tree takes on an almost human demeanour, especially when it is lit by a rising full moon. A post-festive slough of despond descends like John Prescott in concrete boots and some of us are compelled to alleviate our symptoms with a spot of retail therapy. Every shooting star is a tiny particle of interplanetary debris moving so fast that it burns up in the air and descends to Earth as harmless cosmic dust. If the notes are in a descending scale, the bind descends, and vice versa. The ngosha is a small but very numerous granivorous bird that sweeps over the sky in flocks like small clouds and descends on grain fields to feast. We arrive at a steep descent and he suggests I engage Hill Descent Control, an electronic system that automatically controls the speed of the vehicle as it descends. However the situation soon descends into something more sinister. Man's worship ascends upward, and the Divine providence descends thereby. It descends and when the doors open he is astonished to be greeted by a scene of desolation, with dejected people dressed in rags and a smell of sulphur in the air. Show More Sentences The piece on the sonnets has a lovely description of a sonnet's action, but descends into mumpish fact and opinion, like lecture notes put into a compactor. A hot air balloon suddenly descends, drifting clumsily to earth. A chill descends down my spine as I pull away from the Caddy. From a high central half-round, the skirt descends along cyma or ogee curves to cusps that set off shallow arches with small half-rounds in the middle. A handful of hapless punters are dragged up and the whole thing descends into a sort of free-form hoedown, complete with catcalls and wolf whistles. A kind of deathly, phony calm descends at moments like that. Martial law descends on the city while the KGB knocks on doors of known dissidents. Sorry mate, the red mist descends whenever I see that pop video thing. Then out of the mist, a whirring of helicopter blades, and, deus ex machina, a man descends fromt he chopper to winch you aboard. From Martigny Route 9 descends to Lausanne and from Aosta Route A5 descends to Torino. South of Mickle Fell the ridge descends to the Stainmore Gap before rising again into the Yorkshire Dales. The air descends on the leeward side, but due to the precipitation it has lost much of its moisture. After the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily. The king stepped down from his elevated throne towards the common people, just as God descends from heaven. As winter descends, the Ginger Snaps team is seriously considering heading inside and refusing to come out for the next three months. The dale widens below Cauldron Snout, and trees appear, contrasting with the broken rocks where the water descends over High Force. Modern English descends from Middle English, which in turn descends from Old English. The central third descends from the University district in the north, past Nottingham Trent University's Gothic revival Arkwright Building. Gradually these Legolands appear bigger and bigger, closer and closer, as the aircraft descends. Beowulf descends to do battle with the dragon, but finds himself outmatched. Show More Sentences When the museum finally closed in 2001, these items were returned to Lord Abinger, who descends from a niece of Lady Jane Shelley. Like many other instruments of classical music, the violin descends from remote ancestors, cruder in form, that were used for folk music. From Corn Du, a ridge with an inner escarpment descends south towards Merthyr Tydfil. From there, the polecat's northern border goes on to the upper Vychegda River, and descends further on southwards and in the Urals. The present Mediterranean Sea descends from this somewhat larger Tethys sea. To the north, in the direction of Marrakesh, the range descends less abruptly. The strong Germanic present thus descends from the PIE present, while the past descends from the PIE perfect. The peerage remains without a holder until the death of the peer making the disclaimer, when it descends normally. What was that tackle about? The red mist still descends on Beckham occasionally. Air is drawn in and descends just inside the glass, passing up through the flame in the centre of the lamp. These buildings surround a small, irregularly shaped square, the Mayor's Garden, from which the rue d'Enghien descends. The river bank gradually descends to marshes at Joppa Flats beyond downtown Newburyport. Immediately after the Concord joins the Merrimack, the Merrimack descends another ten feet in Hunt's Falls. Far Tongue Gill descends from the north of the ridge, a tributary of Newlands Beck. The main ridge descends south east from High Raise as the ground between the Rivers Brothay and Rathay gradually narrows to a point at Ambleside. From here the ridge descends and gradually broadens into the rough expanse of Thelkeld Common. Gallen and descends from a noble Appenzell family, and was a mechanical and electrical engineer who worked in the oil refining business. From the summit of the fell the trail descends to upper Swaledale and the village of Thwaite. The trail then descends to Ponden Hall, and crosses more moorland to the villages of Cowling and Lothersdale. Past the forest it follows field paths to Shitlington Crags and descends to the large village of Bellingham. Show More Sentences The path then descends into Scotland and enters the village of Kirk Yetholm. Called the peduncle, the tubelike structure descends underneath the bell and branches out into more elaborate tubes for feeding. A female diver on line three, Junko Kitahama of Japan, inhales a few final lungfuls, ducks her head beneath the water, and descends. Tantina descends from Monroe's Group 3-placed daughter Didicoy, by Danzig, via her Grade 2-winning filly Didina. It descends 50 feet a day, first making a 13-inch pilot hole, which will then reportedly be widened to pull the men up in a cage one at a time. Romanov posit that the modernday tuliptree descends from a plant named Archaeanthus and not the magnolia, as commonly thought. Much more open is Stickle Ghyll, which descends from Stickle Tarn. They are often called pyramids, due to their tendency to split into an increasing number of regional divisions, the further down the pyramid one descends. The peerage remains without a holder until the death of the peer who had made the disclaimer, when it descends to his or her heir in the usual manner. I felt tranquilized while looking at it, as I do when the rosy clouds are fading into gray twilight, and the pale moon-sickle descends slowly behind the dim woods. The princely house of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, which has been known since the 14th century as the House of Shuisky, descends from Andrey II of Vladimir. At the eastern foot of the down, on the A3055 road between Bonchurch and Luccombe, a path descends into Bonchurch Landslips via a scenic rock cleft, the Devil's Chimney. As the subducting plate approaches the trench, it first bends upwards to form the outer trench swell, then descends to form the outer trench slope. Mint descends from the Latin word mentha, which is rooted in the Greek word minthe, personified in Greek mythology as Minthe, a nymph who was transformed into a mint plant. The main topographical feature is the central plateau which rises abruptly from the Red Sea and gradually descends into the Nejd and toward the Persian Gulf. The Silver Surfer, an intergalactic herald who prepares each world for Galactus' arrival, descends from the heavens and begins creating mile-long craters. It is believed that during the Navratri, Goddess Durga descends on earth to rid it of the demons and blesses her devotees with happiness and prosperity. The citadel walls that crown the hill, on the slopes of which the modern city descends amphitheatrically into the sea, are remnants of Venetian fortifications. Then the albatross makes a tight turn downwind and swoops down into another wave trough, adding airspeed as it descends through the wind shear into progressively slower winds. Just south of the road, the infant stream descends into a deep goyle. Show More Sentences The valley descends to join with Great Langdale above Elter Water. The modern English noun dwarf descends from the Old English dweorg. Examples from Classical Literature If the level descends as far as to the orifice in the partition, hh', the gas will flow out without causing the apparatus to move. A man never ascends or descends, nor walks at all in any direction, without raising the heel of the back foot. The forest climbs to the snow line, while the snow line descends as if to meet it. At Islamabad it is a very small stream, but it gradually enlarges, by additions from both sides, as it descends. It descends gradually into the valley of the Campillos, arriving at, and crossing the river about two miles from jaen. Every rain that descends washes from the unconsecrated bank the bones of those intrepid sufferers. A little beyond the house a wheel road, left, descends into one of the finest parts of the Verde forest. In Figure L 3a the nystagmus occurs only in males and descends through unaffected females. It is evident, as before intimated, that the river descends from its summit in plateaux. Straightway there descends a dove white as snow, bearing in its beak an ampulla full of chrism sent from heaven. By means of a wire ladder the excursionist descends still deeper into the bowels of the earth. At the left side, it turns, and descends to the left haunch-bone, and is called the descending colon. The gelada inhabits the mountains of Abyssinia, where, like other baboons, it descends in droves to pillage cultivated lands. There I saw things which he who thence descends has not the knowledge or power to retell. The deltoid impression is very extensive, and descends pretty far down on the body of the bone. During the subsequent stages the ccum descends into the right iliac fossa, thus producing the ascending colon. The road to the beach descends a sharp, gravelly hill, and crosses a bridge. The supposed Evremonde descends, and the seamstress is lifted out next after him. On reaching the top of the brow, she began to skip and run where the road descends by Folieu. The Parker 210 system features an electrically powered seat lifter that descends into a flat-bottomed bath. Show More Sentences Our Anglo-Saxon inheritance descends upon us in times like these. And it descends the trunks of trees head first, just as the coati does. All this water descends from the Height of Land to the sea level. That part of the ecliptic whence the sun descends southward. The lode descends steeply, and the excavation must follow its course. The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows. So in Parsifal the white dove descends, overshadowing the grail. It is only when he descends from the clouds to pounce upon carrion that he betrays his low propensities, and reveals his caitiff character. During the dwell period of the machine cycle, the template descends onto the vacuum table. Hence the speedy oblivion which descends on polemics of all sorts. Leaving the highlands of Asia, he descends from station to station towards Europe. As The Vengeance descends from her elevation to do it, the tumbrils begin to discharge their loads. It descends toward the parasphenoid and is attached to the prootic. At this point of inflation, it is in exact equilibrium with the air, and neither mounts nor descends. A gentle slope descends from it to a silver sheet of water, bordered by high trees, between which, peeps may be caught at the blue hills of the Hudson. Find more words! 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