Sample Sentences for
ascension
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ascension as in:  ascension to the throne

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    I explained why we needed to wake the sun god—the threat of Apophis's ascension, mass chaos and destruction, the world about to end at sunrise, et cetera.  (source)
    ascension = movement upward--literal or figurative
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    Finnick goes back to Snow's political ascension, which I know nothing of, and works his way up to the present, pointing out case after case of the mysterious deaths of Snow's adversaries or, even worse, his allies who had the potential to become threats.  (source)
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    The book of Acts flashed into my head, the scene of Jesus' ascension, when Jesus told the disciples that they would be his witnesses, that they would tell people all over the world about him.  (source)
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    Annie had congratulated her on her transparency, on her ascension, as Annie put it, but then had become very busy.  (source)
    ascension = movement upward--literal or figurative
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    Harold Crosby, delaying his ascension in the often-faulty angel-apparatus, had twice requested a "last" visit to the men's room.  (source)
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    They feared being so light that the only word that could describe what would happen to them was ascension.  (source)
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    But she has also enjoyed the birth of two healthy children, Caroline and John Jr., and the stunning ascension of her dashing young husband from a Massachusetts politician to president of the United States.  (source)
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    So this terrifying ascension was most difficult for him, perched as he was on the neck of the giant.  (source)
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    His arms were folded as he watched the ascension of his men.  (source)
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    He reached out to Glaedr, and the old dragon fed him energy to sustain his ascension.  (source)
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    She was not seen to cry during the ascension to heaven of Remedios the Beauty or over the extermination of the Aurelianos or the death of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who was the person she loved most in this world, although she showed it only when they found his body under the chestnut tree.  (source)
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    The journey toward this particular truth was not an ascension toward a glorious light but a descent into darkness, chaos, the maelstrom.  (source)
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    There were arrows predicting elliptical orbits, geometric symbols indicating angles of ascension, and zodiacal creatures peering down at her.  (source)
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Ascension as in:  Ascension holiday

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According to Christian belief, Ascension celebrates Jesus' rise to heaven the 40th day after his resurrection.
Ascension = Christian holiday
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    She attended the special service held for Ascension Day.
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    So after Ascension Day I keep them recta* an extra hour every Wednesday.  (source)
    Ascension Day = Christianity:  celebration of the rising of Christ into heaven
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    ...on the last feast of the Ascension, to wit, the twelfth day of May of...  (source)
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    Ascension, in its world premiere at the Nelly Regina Theater, is the stunning debut by choreographer Petra Echevarri, recent graduate of Juilliard and winner of the Princess Grace Award.  (source)
    Ascension = a name in this novel
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    Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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    The nuns told her it was like a Holy Ascension except Papi was dressed to go dancing.  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward to heaven
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    Rubber Plant: The Ascension, it's called.  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward to heaven
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    Ascension to a paradise that in one version was merely "a feeling," a sense of power, of unassailable superiority-sensations that in another version were transposed into "A red place."  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward or to heaven
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    Planes arrived for Milo from airfields in Italy, North Africa and England, and from Air Transport Command stations in Liberia, Ascension Island, Cairo, and Karachi.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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    Tia Concha became Aunt Conchshell, and Tia Asuncion, Aunt Ascension; Tio Mundo was Uncle World; Paloma, our model cousin, turned into Pigeon, and for spite we surnamed her, accurately, Toed.  (source)
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    Another inventor, J. B. McComber, representing the Chicago-Tower Spiral-Spring Ascension and Toboggan Transportation Company, proposed a tower with a height of 8,947 feet, nearly nine times the height of the Eiffel Tower, with a base one thousand feet in diameter sunk two thousand feet into the earth.  (source)
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    Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you.  (source)
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    "Have you been to the Church of the Ascension?" he suddenly asked him, with stern emphasis.  (source)
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    He was referring to the fresco of the "Ascension of St. John."  (source)
    Ascension = physical movement upward
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    London reached, the travellers alight, the old housekeeper in great tribulation and confusion, Mrs. Bagnet quite fresh and collected—as she would be if her next point, with no new equipage and outfit, were the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of Ascension, Hong Kong, or any other military station.  (source)
    Ascension = part of a name
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    On the Ascension Avenue there lived a barber of the name of Ivan Jakovlevitch.  (source)
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