1. The balloon descended gradually as the air came out.

2. He is descended from pioneers.

3. The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.

4. A hail of arrows descended from the tower.

5. She descended into a cellar.

6. He descended from a royal family.

7. They descended to the Underground.

8. They descended from the mountaintop.

9. He claimed he was descended from the Vikings.

10. The path descended steeply into the valley.

11. The guerrillas descended on the enemy.

12. A mood of melancholy descended on us.

13. One day depression descended upon him, and wherever he went after that he could never throw it off.

14. The demonstrations in the capital rapidly descended into anarchy.

15. He is descended from an honourable family.

16. The sun descended behind the hills.

17. She descended one flight of stairs.

18. Silence descended on the room/over the countryside.

19. The police descended on their hide-out.

20. The mountain path descended precipitously to a small valley.

21. She descended the stairs slowly.

21.

22. Her father is descended from Greek royalty.

23. Thrill-seekers descended upon the scene of the crime.

24. Letters of congratulation descended on us like snowflakes.

25. Peace descended once more on the little town.

26. He was descended from a noble family.

27. The children descended the hill.

28. An air of gloom descended over the party headquarters.

29. Visitors descended on us at Christmas.

30. According to the Bible, the whole of mankind is descended from Adam.

1. He is descended from pioneers.

2. The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.

3. A hail of arrows descended from the tower.

4. She descended into a cellar.

5. He descended from a royal family.

6. They descended to the Underground.

7. They descended from the mountaintop.

8. He claimed he was descended from the Vikings.

9. The path descended steeply into the valley.

10. The guerrillas descended on the enemy.

11. A mood of melancholy descended on us.

12. According to the Bible, the whole of mankind is descended from Adam.

13. One day depression descended upon him, and wherever he went after that he could never throw it off.

14. He is descended from an honourable family.

15. The mountain path descended precipitously to a small valley.

16. He was descended from a noble family.

17. The house has descended from our ancestors.

18. He descended from Jewish stock.

19. He descended into a cellar.

20. He descended from the tower.

21. They descended the slope towards the hamlet.

21.

22. A family tree is a diagram with branches, showing how the members of a family are descended and related.

23. Darkness descended too soon.

24. Another oppressive night descended.

31. He is lineally descended from a respect able family.

32. He is descended from an honorable family.

33. The people here are descended from the Vikings.

34. A hush descended over the waiting crowd.

35. He is descended from Edward.

36. Hundreds of football fans descended on the city.

37. The custom has descended to our day.

38. An uneasy calm descended on the area.

39. The house has descended from our ancestors.

40. The sun descended over the western hills.

41. The bandits descended on the defenseless village.

42. Armed thieves descended on the travellers.

43. The curtain descended,but the audience was still laughing away.

44. He descended from Jewish stock.

45. He descended to a life of petty crime.

46. A large hand descended on his shoulder.

47. He descended into a cellar.

48. We sat and watched as the gloom descended.

49. The elevator descended slowly to the ground floor.

50. She claims to be descended from royalty.

51. They descended into the cave.

52. We descended into Heathrow through thick cloud cover.

53. Dozens of police descended on the building.

54. Darwin concluded that men were descended from apes.

55. The lift descended one floor.

56. He descended from the tower.

57. A pall of embarrassment descended on the room.

58. The troops descended upon the village and destroyed it.

59. The millionaire's property descended to his eldest son.

60. She claims to be descended from Abraham Lincoln.

61. He claims to be descended from a Spanish prince.

62. Calm descended on the crowd.

63. Total silence descended on the room.

64. The situation has descended into total chaos.

65. They descended to the level of personal insults.

66. They descended the slope towards the hamlet.

67. The monkey descended from the tree.

68. A family tree is a diagram with branches, showing how the members of a family are descended and related.

69. The breed is almost directly descended from the Eurasian wild boar.

70. Darkness descended too soon.

71. She told us she was descended from some Scottish Lord.

72. A lot of the people there are descended from a common ancestor.

73. 3,000 city officials descended on Capitol Hill to lobby for more money.

74. We turned the corner and saw that the road descended steeply.

75. Jane descended the stairs.

76. They descended from the plane into a forest of microphones and cameras.

77. A feeling of despair descended as we realized that we were completely lost.

78. She was unprepared for the flood of vituperation which descended on her from her critics.

79. He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos.

80. He descended to particulars.

81. She descended the stairs.

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82. By the end of his life, Presley's vocals often descended close to self-parody.

83. Another oppressive night descended.

84. The minister's speech descended into a rant against his political opponents.

85. Darkness has now descended and the moon and stars shine hazily in the clear sky.

86. The mosquitoes descended on us as soon as night fell.

87. The police descended on the house in the early hours of the morning.

88. The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags.

89. Two hundred scuba divers descended on the island to clean up the harbour.

90. Jupiter descended to humankind.

91. The house descended through the male heirs for three centuries.

92. She was so poor that she descended to begging for her food.

93. She descended the ladder.

94. Slowly the two climbers descended the cliff face.

95. Guerrillas descended from the Lacandon Volcano in Quetzaltenago.

96. Once past 30 he swiftly descended into alcoholism.

97. Man appears to be descended from patrilineal ancestors.

98. All Gauls claimed to be descended from him.

99. Then they descended again to the concourse.

100. Stu's mother is descended from Cherokee Indians.

101. It seemed a poor thing to have descended to.

102. A hush descended over the crowd.

103. We descended into the cave by a rope ladder.

104. Her children descended on me in a fury.

105. On seeing me standing in defiance, arms folded and apparently so cool-looking(), a hush descended.

106. The University of Edinburgh's most famous dropout, Charles Darwin, pointed out that human beings are descended from animals.

107. Ba'al was thought to have descended into the earth and the sacrifices and energy invigorated him and brought about his resurrection.

108. Dozens of officers descended when one convoy stopped in a lay-by.

109. As Microsoft ascended to prominence and Apple descended to the depths, the licensing debate among Mac users rose in volume.

110. A wall of silence has now descended over the key players.

111. Jesse Jackson descended upon Hollywood to protest the almost total absence of black and minority nominees.

112. The family was an illegitimate branch of the Yorkshire Hoptons,() being descended from Sir Robert Swillington by his mistress Joan Hopton.

113. When the world descended on Sydney last month it was with trepidation.

114. A great heat wave descended; it was a beautiful day, the sun turned red at three.

115. The top of Hong Kong Hill rose above the horizon on our right as I descended below it.

116. The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere.

117. Twenty-five minutes later Duncan descended through the thick-formed low-hanging stratus cloud and landed uneventfully on Sheremetyevo's Runway 23 Left.

118. Slowly I descended the stairs and went out into the courtyard.

119. As a result, a heavy dose of reality has descended on the Buchanan campaign.

120. In the third story, men are descended from a race of stone.

121. Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again.

122. Bradley concludes that the animals descended from two separate groups of common ancestors, domesticated at roughly the same time.

123. He was descended from slaves who had accompanied their master, one Rafe Straker, from Long Island in 1783.

124. Power still comes from a small block, two-valve push-rod V-8 whose principal architecture is descended from the 1953 original.

125. Gradually I descended the spruce tree and slowly crept toward the feeding birds.

126. I descended to the ground floor, passing a man in his mid-sixties, clutching a twenty-dollar bill.

127. During the night a storm descended upon them and they became lost in the dense woodland.

128. He chafes at the pomp and security that has descended on him with his new post.

129. Their collective mood had found its cellar, a malaise like a ladder they had descended rung by rung.

130. Through him the Merovingians can thus claim to be descended from Noah.

131. The illness which had descended on her seemed to draw in its claws.

132. The hem of the long smock descended like a bell of light around her legs.

133. She belongs to a family descended from free Blacks those released from slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

134. As the Archon entered, a silence descended over the gathered parliamentarians.

135. By the time the group reached Brescia, the clouds had descended again, and the factory was rather gloomy inside.

136. A thick fog descended on the mountain, and I knew that we were in grave danger.

137. She saw Alexei, paused and smiled, and then descended the few steps and came towards him.

138. At his trial some 15,000 revellers descended on Millau for music, feasting and anti-capitalist fun.

139. They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse.

140. For a split second, the noise that had been rising from stadium to sky descended from sky to stadium.

141. Inside the cavern fluorescent lights threw a weird glow as the vehicle descended a ramp deep into the earth.

141. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

142. One family has a Confederate cavalryman among its forebears, the other is descended from slaves.

143. A great desire to stand and cry descended on her.

144. The scores of journalists who had descended on New Madrid for the fateful day ended up reporting on one another instead.

145. Flying over Normandy he descended to ground level to escape the fog and to find his bearings.

146. After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire.

147. The passengers were utterly silent as the bus descended into the crater.

148. This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea.

149. A small holding force of Empire troops was swept aside and the Orc army descended into the plains of Averland.

150. All the mitochondria in you are descended from the small population of mitochondria that travelled from your mother in her egg.

151. Men are descended from fish, perhaps of the shark or dogfish type.

152. In the story of the five ages men are descended from the iron race.

153. The Yellowstone herd, which is directly descended from those last surviving bison, is of particular spiritual importance to those tribes.

154. Margulis's theory is that mitochondria and chloroplasts, and a few other structures inside cells, are each descended from bacteria.

155. Therefore, everybody is descended from men who preferred fertile women, and every person inherits from those ancestors the same preference.

156. As she descended the escalator towards the platforms, she noticed the digital clock in the ceiling.

157. We descended down as the flak, which caused us no major problems, opened up.

158. Tony was well briefed before we descended to the bowels of the earth.

159. He descended into the deep recesses of her neck where it was scented sweetly and so warm.

160. Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes, they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships.

161. He passed into the saloon, found the companionway at once and descended to a central passage.

162. Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. Franklin D. Roosevelt 

163. Before me lay a deep gulley choked with oleanders and thorny scrub, which descended precipitously down to the private beach.

164. He might as well have descended on the Palace, announcing that he had come for a stay.

165. The three headed along the catwalk, descended a rusty ladder on to the dunes of debris.

166. Gaza descended into chaos and pitch black as the power went out.

167. A Darkfall storm had descended on a factory in Leeds four years earlier.

168. When Stafford saw Cantor move slowly toward the right, he descended on the opposite side.

169. She descended into hell to attend the funeral of the raging bull of heaven, her instrument for terrorizing the earth.

170. Placed in charge, Taylor had written to vendors, requesting catalogs and price lists, and now they descended upon him.

171. As Discovery curved still closer toward Saturn, the Sun slowly descended toward the multiple arches of the rings.

172. I descended to 500 feet, then continued descending with a Rate 1 on to final and continued the descent to 100 feet.

173. It was in 1933 when the explosive din suddenly stopped and an eerie silence descended on Boulder Canyon.

174. Depression had descended on her, hemmed in by all these people, driving along a straight dreary road.

175. Holmes brushed aside an offer to wait, and we descended a set of echoing stone stairs.

176. His brother lost his job, and descended into the abyss.

177. The blast descended on him, burning into his very soul.

178. Because they were descended from them, many sometimes descending from a single ancestral species.

179. On the few occasions when the wind was not blowing a gale, the fog descended like a shroud.

180. Again like Brezhnev, Tsedenbal descended from the summit in the early 1980s.

181. The steep east bank may be descended, with care, for a more comprehensive view.

182. With eager anticipation, though her clear golden-brown eyes held a hint of sadness, Luce Weston descended the steps.

183. But soon after that he descended to an unreachable level.

184. Three waiters descended on the table, filling water glasses, adjusting silverware and plates.

185. When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.

186. And she descended the stairs and, tapping lightly on the door, turned the handle and went in.

187. Another cloud of dust descended from the ceiling and fell around Goebbels.

188. As she descended the stairs, she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace.

189. She dried herself, wrapped the soft, fragrant robe around her slim body and cautiously descended the staircase.

190. A baby carriage was overturned, and a heavy rain of black ash descended for a long while afterward.

191. In doing so,() he would inevitably have descended into the arena in a totally unacceptable way.

192. If you believe in evolution, you believe man is descended from primates, and primates are vegetarian.

193. The screams reached their peak as the remaining males descended to the ground and started charging through the group.

194. He descended the stairs slowly in the dark, his hand holding tightly on to the banister rail.

195. Air-raid wardens in tin helmets watched the skies and silence descended on the empty streets.

196. In a long, flat arc, he descended toward the surface of Japetus.

197. Then she had descended through the familiar outer layers of Dreamspace, and faded in on the bus.

198. Reaching out for the banister rail, he switched on the torch and slowly descended the stairs.

199. The missiles were military equipment and confirmed that the army had descended into chaos.

200. At seven-thirty Paige descended the grand sweeping staircase to the hall.

201. He must bear primary responsibility for the chaos that descended upon the White House when such disclosure did occur.

202. While there is political violence, it has not descended to political assassination.

203. Sticks swinging, they descended on vendors selling illegally in the historic district, witnesses said.

204. The Dome itself, designed by Ralph Tubbs, looked as if it had descended from Mars.

205. A blanket of silence descended.

206. He was in agony when he descended a crowded stair.

207. A person from whom one is descended , especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.

208. Domestic chickens are descended from jungle fowl of Southeast Asia.