Example sentences for: ascended

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

  • When a new king, Kamehameha IV, ascended to the throne in 1854, Judd was tossed out.

  • John Madden has long since ascended to the press box.

  • In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebastião ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.

  • To Ms. Flanders' brief list of Foreign Treasures [XXIII,1] I would like to add one of my late father's French favorites, La moutarde m'est montée en nez , I lost my temper (lit. the mustard ascended into my nose).

  • The following passage from the WP about the photographers under investigation shows the meta-levels the story has now ascended to: "As they were released and their handcuffs removed, the suspects slipped out side entrances to the huge courthouse building, avoiding the waiting banks of television and still cameras.


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