DESCENDENT in a Sentence

Learn DESCENDENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

237 example sentences for DESCENDENT, such as:

1. Reason descended from her plinth.
2. Great Eliza descended from her soap box.
3. Fagin stealthily descended the kitchen stairs.
4. They claim to be descendants of a French duke.
5. The plane started descending at a steep angle.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESCENDENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
descending
 a.  coming down or downward
descend
 v.  move downward and lower; come from
 v.  be connected by a relationship of blood
descendant
 n.  a person related to someone from an earlier generation; offspring
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The hall door had hardly slammed behind our visitor before Holmes had descended the stair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  I assented gladly, and we all descended together.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  Great Eliza descended from her soap box.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
4  Reason descended from her plinth.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  The gramophone warbled Home, Sweet Home, and Budge, swaying slightly, descended from his box and followed the procession off the stage.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
6  The figure descended the great stairs, steadily, steadily; always verging, like a weight in deep water, to the black gulf at the bottom.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
7  Hereupon, no other than the mysterious old woman descended.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
8  Cedric is not her father," replied the Prior, "and is but of remote relation: she is descended from higher blood than even he pretends to, and is but distantly connected with him by birth.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  But with the blood of this ancient royal race, many of their infirmities had descended to Athelstane.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  She locked the door behind her, and Rebecca might hear her curse every step for its steepness, as slowly and with difficulty she descended the turret-stair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  He descended into the lists, and commanded them to unhelm the conquered champion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  There was obviously no more to be made of Athelstane; or, as Wamba expressed it, in a phrase which has descended from Saxon times to ours, he was a cock that would not fight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  Edmund had descended from that moral elevation which he had maintained before, and they were both as much the better as the happier for the descent.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  Fagin stealthily descended the kitchen stairs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  They descended into the passage, and thence into the cellars below.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  According to the Bible, the whole of mankind is descended from Adam.
2  The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.
3  The breed is almost directly descended from the Eurasian wild boar.
4  The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
5  Having descended a staircase, traversed a portion of the house below, and succeeded in opening and shutting, without noise, two doors, I reached another flight of steps.
6  Colonel Dent, their spokesman, demanded "the tableau of the whole;" whereupon the curtain again descended.
7  They made it clear that by the time the Americans descended on the hospital by helicopter they were aware that they would face no resistance.
8  New Age dreamers, alternative lifestyle gurus and curious onlookers from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak'tun - a period of around 400 years - in the Maya Long Calendar.
9  They claim to be descendants of a French duke.
10  They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.
11  Eventually the descendants of England's Henry II were forced to cede their French territories to the King of France.
12  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fears he'll be pressured to recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, a step he believes would abrogate the rights of Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
13  My sister's family is descending on us this weekend.
14  There were fears that the country was descending into turmoil or even civil war.
15  The plane started descending at a steep angle.