descend
verb (used without object)
to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down.
descends
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present tense formof descend (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In summer, the area is frequently affected by the Washoe Zephyr, a gusty afternoon wind that descends from the Sierra Nevada mountains in the west, blowing across the high desert basin around Reno.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
It simply descends as you travel west from Bordeaux along empty roads and through deserted villages.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
As firefighters in southwest France struggle to bring a forest inferno under control before yet another heatwave descends on the country, Filippi told AFP about the phenomenon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“The idea that he descends on Westminster like he is a conquering hero, it doesn’t have a logic,” said Philip Cowley, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
He nevertheless stands at the head of the coloristic tradition that descends through Rubens and Van Gogh to the Abstract Expressionists of the twentieth century.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
