Ascend

//əˈsɛnd//

"Ascend" in a Sentence (19 examples)

The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed.

I start from sleep, the parapet ascend, / and from the sloping roof with eager ears attend.

Phaeacia's heights with the horizon blend; / we skim Epirus, and Chaonia's bay / enter, and to Buthrotum's town ascend.

He was going to ascend to the throne.

Who of those who have been cast down by sin shall ascend?

Ziri continued to ascend the mountain.

Not a soul was visible on the hedgeless highway, or on either side of it, and the white road seemed to ascend and diminish till it joined the sky.

The balloon continued to ascend.

I will ascend.

The footsteps continued to ascend.

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He ascended to heaven upon a cloud.

You ascend the stairs and take a right.

When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.

She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

She ascended to the throne when her mother abdicated.

Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.

Instead of using sexual conquest as an opportunity to “ascend,” these members advocated for pursuing internal self-improvement.

As such, race and class are not only factors in attractiveness (i.e. “Just Be White” and “job/career maxxing” are often used in the forums), but is also a factor when incels discuss ways for them to “ascend” and leave their incel status.

Many femcels take extreme measures to 'ascend from femceldom', and Laura describes how she is in the process of improving her looks and personality.

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