descend from

phrasal verb

descended from; descending from; descends from

: to have (something or someone in the past) as an origin or source

Recent evidence supports the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs.

The plants descend from a common ancestor.

They claim to be descended from a noble British family.

Examples of descend from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That new air, from an air mass that descended from the north, has been bolstered by increasing high pressure. —Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026

The few visible trails had been kept open by the passage of wild donkeys descended from colonial-era pack animals. —Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026

Owner Linda Newman lives off the grid with her huskies, which are descended from a line of traditional Alaskan working dogs. —Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026

The 20-foot-high, 700 pound plus mega-ornament — aglow with thousands of color-changing LED lights — descends from 100 feet in the air as the final seconds of 2025 tick down. —Miami Herald, 27 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for descend from

• nodosum
• overcome
• pyrethrum
• saccharum
• abomasum
• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• succumb
• therefrom