descent Examples
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[dɪˈsɛnt] 
US - Examples of descent
- We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier.
- We had difficulty in finding the correct descent.
- The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.
- Our guide was of Welsh descent.
- After that, the holiday went into a steep descent.
- Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. — Charles Darwin.
- An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- The rule by which the descent is fixed.
- Most striking about their relationship is not Mrs. Pugach’s lingering resentment, not her husband’s less-than-evident remorse, and not even their mutual dependence, but the marriage’s frank descent into humdrumness.
- As a Usonian of Celtic-Franco/Gallego Mexican-Quaker-Catholic-German-Blackfoot-Rock&Roll descent, I feel at home.
Examples of descent in a Sentence
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Source: Wiktionary