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Meanings of descent in English
Usage of descent in English
1
Cycling the highest road in Europe Isn't the best ascent a descent?
2
A rerun of 1914's descent into global war is really rather unlikely.
3
It is a common genetic anomaly, especially among people of African descent.
4
They'd surely used a crapload of battery power fighting the unscheduled descent.
5
The only true choice left is how to control the accelerating descent.
6
He took the descent in three leaps, and the burn in one.
7
Later, the princess' descent into madness had done Niryn's work for him.
8
As the trail widened in the descent, Kut-le rode in beside her.
9
There are 50 million people of Hispanic descent in the United States.
10
UK police revealed Abedi was a 22-year-old British national of Libyan descent.
11
There's a reason genealogists use family trees to show lines of descent.
12
Sadly, it also chronicles a steady descent in quality over the years.
13
The descent of the mountain was a labor of only four minutes.
14
In the descent to the cañon the pony began to stumble badly.
15
As the sleighs swerved in the descent the tension was very great.
16
They had snagged in their descent, and were trying to work free.
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Translations for descent
Russian
Descent through the time
Descent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
New Zealand
Common
South Africa
Common
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