Example sentences for: ascended

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

  • Many civilians in and above the impact zone ascended the stairs.

  • 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 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.

  • Watts, the House's only black Republican, ascended to one of the party's top House posts.

  • Süleyman the Magnificent, aged 25, ascended the throne and ruled for 46 years (1520–1566), the longest and most glorious reign in the history of the Ottomans.


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