descend upon
Example Sentences
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Working from a script by Nick Lepard, Perkins carefully lays out a series of enticing clues regarding precisely when and how the terror will descend upon Liz.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
Together, Schmitt and Law helped turn the event into an international phenomenon, where thousands of revelers descend upon urban neighborhoods in the U.S.,
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Now, as an estimated 50,000 people descend upon Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, Illinois Governor J.B.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024
On Tuesday night, Columbia University President Nemat Shafik made the stunning decision to call upon the notorious Strategic Response Group of the New York Police Department to descend upon the campus.
From Slate • May 1, 2024
He pulled his bike after him, and crouched down, watching ten or twelve people descend upon the pile of trash.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
