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Example sentences for: descent

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

Ethereal mood music accompanies your descent into the cave, lushly planted with luxuriant foliage.
Lately, opponents of affirmative action have donned the mantle of the civil-rights movement, claiming direct descent from Martin Luther King Jr.
A "black box" from EgyptAir Flight 990 was recovered . Information from the flight data recorder shows that the plane's fall began as a "controlled descent" with the pilots still in command.
More adventurous visitors will take the descent down the volcanic sand slide called the suna-bashiri to Shin-Go-gome (“New Fifth Station”).
Known as the Cruz de Portugal (Cross of Portugal), it depicts the crucifixion of Christ on one face and the descent from the cross on the other.