Example Sentences

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Westerners were descending on the former Soviet Union to trade oil and metals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

On February 16 a couple were descending the main face of Glyder Fach when the woman slipped on a patch of grass and fell.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025

The friend, Ethan Michael Cannaert, wrote that the trio were descending after reaching the 14,500-foot summit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

Back at 36th Street, police officers and firefighters were descending into the station.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2022

The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien