Example sentences for: ascendancy

How can you use “ascendancy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 13 The ascendancy of PBS in the men’s industry, where it remains by far the dominant system even today, illustrates how product market competition—specifically intense price-based competition—gave rise to distinctive human resource practices.

  • Even so, its ascendancy is troublesome.

  • The NYT investigates the ascendancy of House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, which it attributes to his "unabashed devotion to political money."

  • The United States can promote moderation, but cannot ensure its ascendancy.

  • In the central region, from the Loire Valley to Belgium, Hugues Capet succeeded in achieving a precarious ascendancy, and was crowned the first king of France in 987.


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