How to Use ascend in a Sentence

ascend

verb

• Several paths ascend to the top of the mountain.
• She believed that when she died, her soul would ascend to heaven.
• Divers must not ascend too rapidly to the water's surface.
• They watched their balloons slowly ascend into the sky.
• She worked as a clerk before ascending to her current position.
• John Adams ascended to the presidency in 1797.
• Instead, continue straight on the route that ascends up the side of the hill.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Octo Octa clears the way—all that’s left to do is ascend.
  — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
• And as with glasses, use of hearing aids ascends with age.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• Accomplish that, and UK could ascend even further in the field.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 28 Feb. 2023
• The couple's eldest child will be turning four on May 6th, the same day Charles ascends the throne.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 24 Apr. 2023
• History, of course, had been made already: Charles ascended to the throne upon the death of the queen.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• Things in the past were tough for artists, perhaps even tougher than now in many ways, and those who ascended to the top were the exception.
  — Howard Murphy, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
• Over and over again, the world proclaims the death of libraries; over and over again, libraries respond by ascending from the grave.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2023
• Spring is the most popular time to climb Mount Everest with most climbers aiming to ascend the peak in May.
  — Manveena Suri, CNN, 2 May 2023
• Alas, while his ideas have gained some prominence on the right, Hawley’s own star isn’t ascending at nearly the same rate.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, would the Crimson Tide, as a result of defeating the top Dawg, ascend into the top four?
  — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Judging by the number of side events and the sheer number of people who have ascended to the Alpine town, Davos seems to be in its heyday.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 16 Jan. 2024
• One man breaks his neck; a sixteen-year-old boy ascends his father’s ladder, bends back to look at the moon, and plummets to his death.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Construction crews will ascend this summer to build it anew on a slab of more stable rock.
  — Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
• Even 10-year Treasury yields have ascended to the 4 percent range.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Its cylindrical entrance has a winding staircase that ascends from a pool of water to the top of the building.
  — Sarah Souli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2023
• There’s a very long driveway that gently ascends to a motorcourt fronting a three-car garage.
  — James McClain, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024
• Scripts doing well ascend to the next level and garner more readers.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 27 Feb. 2024
• This is Charles’s second Christmas address since ascending to the throne in 2022.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
• With that trio and an ascending defense, Kansas City has a good chance to become the first team in the Super Bowl era to win three straight titles.
  — C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
• The iPhone 15, of course, will not ascend in either of the two high-altitude balloons that Pearson and the students will let fly Monday.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2024
• Border Patrol agents were dispatched to the area and ascended Montana Peak on foot.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 7 July 2023
• The pieces either need to be in ascending or descending order or within the same space.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 21 Nov. 2023
• On the way to the Capilla del Cerrito, at the top of the Tepeyac hill, people slowly ascended.
  — Chantal Flores, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024