descend
Example Sentences
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A similar phenomenon heats up Santa Ana winds as air from high above the Great Basin descends and races out to sea.
From Los Angeles Times
Though it was descended from funk and disco and flourished as an underground style in 1980s Detroit and Chicago, rave culture had to be reintroduced to America as an import from Britain.
The work provides a deeper look into the planet's interior without needing to physically descend into its crushing depths.
From Science Daily
"This will be the most throwing-the-kitchen-sink-at-it by-election that we have ever done," says one Green MP, boasting of 30,000 leaflets being delivered already, and hundreds of activists descending on the constituency this weekend.
From BBC
The train we descend from immediately fills with a rush of waiting passengers.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
