How to Use ascender in a Sentence

ascender

noun

• Under that amount of strain, the teeth of their ascenders could have sawed through the rope.
  — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• Thomas seems to admire the early alpine first ascenders, at least online.
  — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• The lander will then deposit the samples in the ascender, which will lift off from the lunar surface.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Nov. 2020
• While wearing a helmet and harness, you are connected to a rope in the tree with hand ascenders and foot loops.
  — oregonlive, 26 June 2023
• The Prusik Knot creates a loop that can be used as an ascender or decender.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2019
• The ascender will then take off, re-enter orbit, and dock with the orbiter-returner.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
• Around dusk, the two climbers attached mechanical ascenders to it and, hanging upside down like tree sloths, made the long, slow traverse to my platform.
  — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• The lander will dig for materials with its drill and robotic arm and transfer them to the ascender, which will lift off from the moon and dock with the service capsule.
  — Sam McNeil, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
• That satellite also played a crucial role in the Chang’e 6’s ascender launching today.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 June 2024
• The lander will dig for materials with its drill and robotic arm and transfer them to what’s called an ascender, which will lift off from the moon and dock with the service capsule.
  — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2020
• Plans call for the upper stage of the probe known as the ascender to be launched back into lunar orbit to transfer the samples to a capsule for return to Earth.
  — Fox News, 4 Dec. 2020
• The process of attaching and unattaching an ascender might add 10 or 15 seconds for each transition.
  — National Geographic, 29 May 2019
• The collection of rocks launched from the lunar surface in the spacecraft’s ascender on June 3, then united with the orbiter days later.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2024
• The ascenders and descenders are consequently short; in her view that gives the font a clinical, businesslike air unsuited to fiction.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Mechanical ascenders and descenders, metal climbing devices that help climbers up and down the rope, require a backup system in case of failure.
  — Calin Van Paris, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026
• At that stage, the samples will be transferred to the returner, and the ascender will separate, leaving the orbiter-returner to start the journey back to Earth.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 24 Nov. 2020
• Launched as a single space craft, Chang'e 5 is actually composed of a lander, ascender, service module and return capsule.
  — Sam McNeil, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
• Renfrow was an early ascender in May’s offseason training activities.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Aug. 2025
• An ascender then lifted them off the lunar surface and transferred them in lunar orbit to a re-entry vehicle, which then traveled back to Earth after separating from its lunar orbiter.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 25 June 2024
• Flying a Chinese flag, the moon lander stopped functioning soon after it was used as a launching pad for the ascender, which was ejected from the orbiter after transferring the samples and came to rest on the moon’s surface.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• The pair improved readability of the Federal Highway Administration's standard alphabet by tweaking the relative heights of letters and the lengths of ascenders and descenders.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2005