descend
verb (used without object)
to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down.
is descending
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present progressiveof descend (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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A young boy wearing short pants and a baseball cap stands in overgrown grass looking at the empty frame from which—amazingly—a blurred figure is descending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
"The suction boots which appear in his first book, The Gremlins, and his last book, Billy and the Minpins, also make an appearance when Sean Connery's Bond is descending into Blofeld's volcano lair," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
The land in some areas is descending towards the Pacific Ocean at a rate of about half an inch per day, according to Michael Phipps, a geologist working for the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
The polar vortex is descending on the midsection of the United States, bringing bitterly cold Arctic air and causing temperatures to plunge rapidly in many areas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
And now Desdemona is descending the stairs on her way out.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
