How do you use Descends in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Descends in a sentence
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Descends meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of descend
Using Descends
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of descend
- In the example corpus, descends often appears in combinations such as: descends from, descends into, descends on.
Context around Descends
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Descends
- In this selection, "descends" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, darkness, fog, mansion, upon, multiple and taxis stand out and add context to how "descends" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include air then descends very rapidly and anthems show descends upon the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "descends" sits close to words such as absences, adjusts and adore, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with descends
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gloom Descends on Sunak as Johnson Saga and Rate Hikes Persistbloomberg. (11 words)
Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the town, and people start to die. (14 words)
As it descends, the number of letters decreases until only A, T, C and G remain. (16 words)
Other types include the cascade, which breaks into smaller falls as the water descends over a slope of rocks and boulders, and the cataract, where large amounts of fast-moving water plummet over a cliff to create a waterfall of great size and power. (44 words)
The cold air then descends very rapidly in the polar vortex and this causes the temperature in the stratosphere to rise very rapidly, as much as 50°C over only a few days; hence the term sudden stratospheric warming. (39 words)
The film follows a father, businessman and secret doomsday prepper who escorts people to the safety of his bunker – actually an underground house – when a massive and potentially deadly fog descends and cuts the power at his home. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
And for these last precious days before the 5 p.m. darkness, a.k.a. daylight saving time, descends, that is good enough for me (though the dream of Swiss burritos endures).
As it descends, the number of letters decreases until only A, T, C and G remain.
As their faded Hollywood mansion descends into terror, the boundaries separating sibling affection and lethal intent blur, unveiling the horrifying extremes of jealousy and bitterness.
Born in 1978, Sheikh Adnan descends from Arraba in Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank.
By the end of the movie, when Heston descends from Mt. Sinai with those tablets, I always feel like I’ve run a marathon.
Climbing 2 150mm, it’s mixture of tight bends, breath-taking descends and scenery adds up to a road many will describe as the “ideal driver’s road”.
Dora Frenhofer, the aging writer at the center of Rachman's intricately constructed novel, understands that dementia is setting in. But before the inevitable darkness descends, she is determined to finish her final book.
Gloom Descends on Sunak as Johnson Saga and Rate Hikes Persistbloomberg.
Granted, the action descends multiple stories and spans multiple different locations (including a stairwell, a neon-lit room, and a final jump out the window to a fire escape several feet below) in this second "hallway" fight.
Ironically dressed in a crisp white suit with his bare feet dripping with what looks like tar, he descends upon Constantine like an angel from Heaven.
It doesn’t help that, if you’re anything like me, these occasions always seem to present themselves right around the time your checking account descends into the double digits.
Other types include the cascade, which breaks into smaller falls as the water descends over a slope of rocks and boulders, and the cataract, where large amounts of fast-moving water plummet over a cliff to create a waterfall of great size and power.
Our idea of youth itself descends into a nausea of desperate training, promotion and talent scouting so that we can divine who might be the elect.
Rhyl is about to witness the ultimate night out as the highly anticipated musical extravaganza, The End-of-the-Night Anthems Show, descends upon the town.
The cold air then descends very rapidly in the polar vortex and this causes the temperature in the stratosphere to rise very rapidly, as much as 50°C over only a few days; hence the term sudden stratospheric warming.
The film follows a father, businessman and secret doomsday prepper who escorts people to the safety of his bunker – actually an underground house – when a massive and potentially deadly fog descends and cuts the power at his home.
Then a 757 appears in the southwest, at first just a glint in the sky, and then the full force of Air Force 2 descends, taxis, stops.
Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the town, and people start to die.
To hope is to be human, to believe that better days are coming even as darkness descends.
After you’ve been suitably impressed by the views, carry on along the footpath which descends as it heads west towards Bartletts Farm.
Common combinations with descends
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- descends from 32×
- descends into 29×
- descends on 18×
- it descends 12×
- descends to 11×
- descends upon 10×
- and descends 7×
- descends the 5×
- descends and 5×
- darkness descends 4×