descend to something

Examples of descended

descended

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Its work had thus hardly begun when the city descended into violence.
She sang and little by little descended to the stage, where she immediately disappeared.
The two have descended into the dungeon and are in the process of digging the prisoner's grave.
In the meantime, their aircraft has descended through 7,500 feet.
Areas informs me that the king has just descended to the sombre shores.
The sun was shining brilliantly when all of a sudden darkness descended over the place.
When they judged the crowd sufficiently warmed up, they descended and tried to lead rushes on the meeting venue.
One descended to the ground once but immediately climbed another plant.
This is the underworld into which the magical director had descended in the prologue.
They climbed mountains, descended rivers and looked out over vast interior plains.
Their possession of the bundles would have identified them as lineage heads, those most directly descended from the divine ancestors.
Furthermore, the descended covering space is unique (up to isomorphism).
Are they descended from small, isolated populations or are they part of one continentally distributed population?
He discredited the then new theory that human beings had descended from apes because the proofs presented were purely anatomical.
And from those descended all which is now living.
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