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Example sentences for: descent

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After 76 minutes of orbital flight, the capsule began its descent.
N90 [New York Terminal Radar Approach] controller stated 'at approximately 9:00 a.m., I observed an unknown aircraft south of the Newark, New Jersey Airport, northeast bound and descending out of twelve thousand nine hundred feet in a rapid rate of descent, the radar target terminated at the World Trade Center.
Lately, opponents of affirmative action have donned the mantle of the civil-rights movement, claiming direct descent from Martin Luther King Jr.
8%) UHC participants were of African American descent.
She was born at term after an uncomplicated pregnancy to healthy, unrelated parents of Northern European descent with a negative family history.