Descending in a sentence

Geologists attribute the arcuate structure to the rigidity of the descending plate, and island arc cusps relate to tears in the descending lithosphere.

In the formulas, the ratios 3:2 or 2:3 represent an ascending or descending perfect fifth (i.e. an increase or decrease in frequency by a perfect fifth), while 2:1 or 1:2 represent an ascending or descending octave.

Philadelphia Museum of Art Nude Descending a Staircase No.2 main Duchamp's first work to provoke significant controversy was Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) (1912).

As a first step, we will sort out our list of the above 20 stocks on the basis of sector-industry segment and then in descending order of net quality score.

As Uptime research analyst Jacqueline Davis noted during the webinar, DLC manufacturers continue to tout feasible PUE levels descending below even 1.1, given ideal operating conditions.

As you descend the concrete stairs into the bar, it’s as if you’re descending into another time, the sounds of jazz and laughter emanating through the small red door.

A woman had slipped on wet grass after descending Coniston Old Man, hurting her ankle.

Bearish traders want to see big bearish volume come in and drop Crocs down below the lower range of the gap, which could drop the stock back under the descending trendline.

Casting Dafoe as a man descending into madness was a smart decision, as a role like this is right up his alley.

Clear break of 100-DMA, one-month-old descending trend line favors AUD/NZD bulls to approach 50-DMA hurdle.

Descending into this well leads to the sewers and a fairly long trek to the door that accepts the Sewer-Gaol Key.

Even if the retrieval did not work, a slowly descending balloon and instrument pod would not pose the same hazards as an instrument pod that had been blown to bits at high altitude.

From a technical perspective however, the descending wedge pattern seemingly forming in the DXY could see said bounce ensue if we see a bullish breakout, and should recent correlations hold, this would likely be bearish stocks.

From the TV promo, this looks to be an “event” episode, with a storm descending on the hospital that could cause a lot of drama.

Graham Madge, a spokesman for the Met Office told thepreviously: “Currently in the UK we have a very large area of high pressure which is very dense descending air, and that’s what’s giving us our largely fine conditions that we’re having at the moment.

He also suggested that Russian political infighting was descending into acts of "domestic terrorism".

He parked near an alley between K’town and downtown, not far from UPS and the 110. He walked into the alley under a cloud deck that was lit orange, yellow, and purple, like the atmosphere of another planet descending.

He's a master storyteller widely known for stories slowly descending into chaos.

Hold’em is actually one of the more recent versions of poker out there, descending hundreds of years of card games before finding form somewhere around the 1920s.

Immense, twisty true-life storytelling that keeps everyone gripped without descending into grimness.