descend to
phrasal verb
descended to; descending to; descends to
1
formal
: to become owned by (someone) when the former owner has died : to become an inheritance to
The estate descended to her from her grandparents.
2
: to lower oneself by doing (something)
She was desperate for money, but she would not descend to asking her friends for help.
Examples of descend to in a Sentence
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At the end of the service, Francis descended to greet cardinals in his wheelchair.
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Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
This new crop of moonwalkers — the first since last century’s Apollo program — will descend to the lunar surface in a Starship after transferring from NASA’s Orion capsule in lunar orbit.
—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
This new crop of moonwalkers — the first since last century’s Apollo program — will descend to the lunar surface in a Starship after transferring from NASA's Orion capsule in lunar orbit.
—By
marcia Dunn, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
That mission marked the first rendezvous of two manned spacecraft, the kind of maneuver that had to be perfected for a lunar module to descend to the moon from a command module, which remained in orbit, and then link up with it for the trip home.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Closing out a six-month stay at the International Space Station, a three-man, one-woman crew plunged back to Earth early Tuesday, streaking across the heartland of America like a blazing meteor as their Crew Dragon capsule descended to a Gulf of Mexico splashdown.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
The plot of Fuze revolves around the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb at a London construction site, which sparks a mass evacuation as bomb disposal experts descend to defuse it.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
The Crew Dragon then descended to a gentle splashdown in calm winds and mild seas.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
Ancient legends depict the mythical being, called long in Chinese, descending to the ground with the fog and rising out of the ocean with the sun, moving the seasons in its wake.
—Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
This new crop of moonwalkers — the first since last century’s Apollo program — will descend to the lunar surface in a Starship after transferring from NASA’s Orion capsule in lunar orbit.
—Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
This new crop of moonwalkers — the first since last century’s Apollo program — will descend to the lunar surface in a Starship after transferring from NASA's Orion capsule in lunar orbit.
—By
marcia Dunn, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
That mission marked the first rendezvous of two manned spacecraft, the kind of maneuver that had to be perfected for a lunar module to descend to the moon from a command module, which remained in orbit, and then link up with it for the trip home.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Closing out a six-month stay at the International Space Station, a three-man, one-woman crew plunged back to Earth early Tuesday, streaking across the heartland of America like a blazing meteor as their Crew Dragon capsule descended to a Gulf of Mexico splashdown.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
The plot of Fuze revolves around the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb at a London construction site, which sparks a mass evacuation as bomb disposal experts descend to defuse it.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
The Crew Dragon then descended to a gentle splashdown in calm winds and mild seas.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
Ancient legends depict the mythical being, called long in Chinese, descending to the ground with the fog and rising out of the ocean with the sun, moving the seasons in its wake.
—Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
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