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Example sentences for: ascended

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The stories ascended breathtakingly in quality and varied greatly in length, though he never wrote anything in grand "Russian novel" proportions.
The son of János Hunyadi, Korvin Mátyás (Matthias Corvinus), ascended the throne in 1458 and for the next 32 years the country enjoyed a golden age of intellectual and civic development.
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.
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.
Watts, the House's only black Republican, ascended to one of the party's top House posts.