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.

  • To Ms. Flanders' brief list of More Foreign Treasures I would like to add one of my late father's French favorites: La moutarde m'est monté en nez, lit., the mustard ascended into my nose, I lost my temper.

  • De Hooch's paintings can be easily divided in subject and style among his three geographical locales, as his own life ascended from working class to middle class to high bourgeois.

  • The rock on the Temple Mount from which he ascended, at or close to the site of the ruined Temple, was commemorated by the construction of the Dome of the Rock in 691.

  • But it was not long before Rosovsky himself ascended to the second most important position at Harvard and Jews became presidents of the leading Ivy League universities.


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