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Example sentences for: descent

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The National Transportation Safety Report still hasn't found any evidence of fire, loss of cabin pressure, or any other clear reason for the plane's sharp descent.
USAT runs a fascinating front-page "cover story" on the Travelers, a little-known South Carolina-based but itinerant clan of English, Irish and Scottish descent thought to number up to 100,000.
There are more people of Latin American descent in the United States than ever before, who you would think might be interested in watching Ronaldo play for Inter Milan.
She was born at term after an uncomplicated pregnancy to healthy, unrelated parents of Northern European descent with a negative family history.
On issues such as India's nuclear testing, the prospect of Pakistan's carrying out its own tests, and Indonesia's descent into anarchy, participants were "either divided or unable to offer much beyond rhetoric," Friedman wrote.