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Example sentences for: ascend

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Forty extra pounds notwithstanding, Sylvester Stallone fails to ascend to the ranks of his co-stars, the great character actors Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta.
Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction was plagued by controversies about whether the previously disloyal were still full members of the nation and whether blacks, once emancipated, should ascend a step higher and receive the franchise on equal terms with whites.
One senior chief did articulate his concern that upper floors could begin to collapse in a few hours, and that firefighters thus should not ascend above floors in the 60s.
The Archduke Charles of Austria rivalled France’s Philip of Bourbon, designated to ascend the throne, in the ensuing War of the Spanish Succession.
The rival Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank is by architect Norman Foster; built on a “coathanger frame,” its floors hang rather than ascend.