Sample Sentences for
ascend
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ascend as in:  ascend the mountain

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    We ascended to the second floor.
    ascended = moved upward
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    Before I ascend the metal stairs that will carry me above the glass ceiling, I wait in darkness and watch the light cast on the Pit walls by the sun.  (source)
    ascend = climb
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    I would go to Alaska, ski inland from the sea across thirty miles of glacial ice, and ascend this mighty nordwand.  (source)
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    We ascended three stairways, passed three landings.  (source)
    ascended = climbed
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    I began climbing, up one level and then the next, ascending the side of the building.  (source)
    ascending = moving or sloping upward
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    Attach! Ascend! Repeat!  (source)
    Ascend = move upward
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    At the front of the house, beside the door, a flight of stairs ascends to the second level.  (source)
    ascends = climbs up
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    Worrying that I was likely to drop something, I decided to wait until I reached a part of the face that was less steep, where I could stand in balance A jumar (also known as a mechanical ascender) is a wallet-sized device that grips the rope by means of a metal cam.†  (source)
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    That beard, the truth of all truths, proceedeth from the place of the ears, and descendeth around the mouth of the Holy One; and descendeth and ascendeth, covering the cheeks which are called the places of copious fragrance; it is white with ornament: and it descendeth in the equilibrium of balanced power, and furnisheth a covering even unto the midst of the breast.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She ascendeth" in older English, today we say "She ascends."
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    He walked to the hall and called out, “Everything good down there?” The answer ascended the steps, on top of Max Vandenburg.  (source)
    ascended = climbed
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    Besides, if the ascending road did become steeper, I was comforted with the thought that it was bringing us nearer to the surface.  (source)
    ascending = climbing (sloped upward)
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    Every morning larks ascend from No Man's Land.  (source)
    ascend = fly up
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    He ascends, falls at a slope, strikes the rebar and returns to the ground.  (source)
    ascends = moves upward
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ascend as in:  in ascending order

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    It lists the top-ten movies by popularity in ascending order.
    ascending = from the tenth most popular to the most popular
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    Unless told otherwise, the program sorts in ascending order.
    ascending = from smallest to largest
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    By way of illustration, Nina pointed her pencil to the first column of her grid, in which six objects were listed in ascending order of size.  (source)
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    The difference between your flesh and the animate power within, which can feel, understand, and love, in that very ascending order, will be clear to you in ten thousand ways, ten thousand times over.  (source)
    ascending = moving from least important to most important
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    I'm a lawyer, and before I came up to this godforsaken circus, I dealt with ascending levels of confidentiality every day of my life.  (source)
    ascending = increasing
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    "My being is yours," he sang in desperation, repeating the same anguished melodic phrase, which the orchestra also picked up again on its own, ascending two notes up from the dominant and with deepest fervor moving back to the fifth below.  (source)
    ascending = moving upward on a musical scale
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    In 1782 Gouverneur Morris proposed to the Continental Congress that the coins of the republic be called, in ascending order, /unit/, /penny-bill/, /dollar/ and /crown/.  (source)
    ascending = from least valuable to most valuable
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ascend as in:  ascend higher figuratively

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    She ascended to the throne.
    ascended = rose to a more prestigious position
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    She believes she will ascend to heaven upon her death.
    ascend = get into a better situation
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    You will ascend the throne, and you will reign beside me.  (source)
    ascend = rise to take (a more prestigious position)
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    Nehemia, who might someday pose a threat to the King of Adarlan's rule over her home country when she ascended to the throne.  (source)
    ascended = rose (to a more prestigious position)
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    They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe.  (source)
    ascend = rise (into a better situation)
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    When the eldest left for college, the next ascended to the throne.  (source)
    ascended = rose (to a more prestigious position)
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    It may be that we are chosen instruments of His good pleasure, and that we ascend to His bidding as that other through stripes and shame.  (source)
    ascend = rise (into a better situation)
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    In 1999, when a young, untested king ascended to the throne after the death of his father, he decided to release more than a thousand criminals and political prisoners in a traditional gesture of goodwill.  (source)
    ascended = rose (to a more prestigious position)
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    The rebels called themselves Alyssians, in honor of the young princess who'd been killed before her time, never able to ascend to the throne.  (source)
    ascend = rise (to a more prestigious position)
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    My exact age is a mystery to me, as it is to many Afghans of my generation, but I am confident in my approximation because I recall quite vividly a fist-fight with my friend, and later to be brother-in-law, Saboor, on the day we heard that Nader Shah had been shot and killed, and that Nader Shah's son, young Zahir, had ascended to the throne.  (source)
    ascended = rose (to a more prestigious position)
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    After the untimely death of Jongilizwe in the 1920s, his son Sabata, the infant of the Great Wife, was too young to ascend to the throne.  (source)
    ascend = rise (to a more prestigious position)
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    Julia will spend the afternoon reading each one, basking in the awareness that the man whose potential she had seen so long before, when he was just a quiet young lieutenant, has ascended from anonymity and disgrace to the level of great historical figure.  (source)
    ascended = moved upward to a position of greater importance
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    As in your world, it does happen—usually by a relative who aspires to ascend to the throne.  (source)
    ascend = rise (to a more prestigious position)
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