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"descend from" Definitions
  1. to have (something or someone in the past) as an origin or source

173 Sentences With "descend from"

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The waters like a cataract descend from his opening jaws.
Metal-rich stars likely descend from many previous generations of stars.
Oprah Winfrey will descend from the clouds to grace Colbert's couch.
While the Powerbeats 3's cables descend from the front of the earbuds while you're wearing them, the Powerbeats 4's seem to descend from the back, down from the arms that hook over your ears.
"They are Satanic as they all descend from Satan," the website says.
Garfield turned to watch a pink neon ladder descend from the rafters.
Next Sunday, a masked eagle will descend from St Mark's bell tower.
They all essentially descend from order to chaos and from stasis to change.
The stage is mostly bare, though columns and porticoes occasionally descend from the ceiling.
Angel emojis descend from the heavens, bush emojis burn and ocean emojis are parted.
And the best solution might descend from a lineage that has hopped between niches.
I want Keith Richards to descend from on high and murder him with needles.
The steep drops as the rivers descend from the mountains augment their hydropower potential.
Stephen Sondheim's Tony-winning chiller, written with Hugh Wheeler, doesn't directly descend from Shakespeare.
TO LAND at Indira Gandhi Airport is to descend from clear skies to brown ones.
Huge teeth descend from a slanted roof as a distressed native toils at the earth.
In each, there are characters who think they descend from the titular Russian royal family.
The frogs descend from ancestors that had been captured in Panama before the Bd epidemic.
The volunteer cyclists enter the race as the wheelchair competitors descend from the Verrazano-Narrows.
Some of the horses descend from animals that belonged to settlers in the early 1800s.
Most people in the Crick, as FLDS members call it, descend from the same founding families.
Grand Bassets, he says, descend from a hound that was prized by Louis XII of France.
The Cajuns descend from people brutally expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada.
The government has argued that the Rohingya descend from farmers from what is now called Bangladesh.
Some areas are only accessible by steep wooden stairs that descend from neighborhoods atop the cliffs.
It was not until the following morning that they could descend from their perches, he said.
Within the trust, there are clans descend from each of Elinor's two daughters: Dorrance "Dodo" Hill.
They fade gradually as they descend from two meters up the wall, eerily suggesting failed escape.
But he still fears the rebels who descend from North Kivu's nearby hills, killing and kidnapping villagers.
Her screams of delight are contagious as she watches Keroppi dance and Kitty descend from the sky.
" It also says, "The Jews are not Semitic they are Satanic as they all descend from Satan.
They would kiss and glitter would descend from the heavens, restoring my faith in Bachelor Nation love.
These celebrations are believed to descend from Celtic mythology, in which the wren symbolised the past year. 
The effect is that the post-bottleneck devils all descend from a relatively small number of ancestors.
As varied as they are, their forms all descend from that of the common plastic water bottle.
It is nearly impossible for icons to descend from their pedestals and have the chance to remount them.
Master each one, and you'll immediately have access to the dozens of variations that descend from them, too.
All tetrapods descend from a single ancestor — a single lineage of fish that managed to spread on land.
New Zealand-based Wakatu has about 4,000 shareholders who mostly descend from the region's original Maori land owners.
The fading sunlight colors the ribbon of water that descend from El Capitan a fiery red and orange.
So June and Angie descend from a long line of sugar-cane farmers, going back prior to emancipation.
Black Iberian pigs descend from wild boars and have been considered a delicacy since long before our times.
I'd also like it to be twelve feet tall and descend from the sky in a pitch black forest.
During warmer months, the tiny marine animals descend from the water's surface when the sun rises to escape predators.
But suddenly, candy colored airplanes, shortened into stubby, Seussian flying machines, descend from the sky, drawing an amazed crowd.
Many locals descend from people who moved to Greece from Turkey in a population exchange in the early 1920s.
All living Aboriginal Australians descend from a single founding population that arrived about 50,000 years ago, the study shows.
All the cells in our body typically descend from a single fertilized egg, and they inherit all the same genes.
Every Wednesday, she'd descend from her purple bedroom to weigh herself on a scale in the corner of the kitchen.
That if I complete this impossible task, Blizzard will descend from the game clouds and give me a high five.
But it is not until you descend from thirty-seven thousand feet that life starts coming into focus once again.
But to descend from that and go into other layers takes courage, it takes love, and a lot of emotions.
Letter of Recommendation I descend from a long line of Italian men who carry wads of cash in rubber bands.
Confirmation with genetic material shows that today's chickens descend from several prehistoric birds, one of those being the red junglefowl.
The Defenders then descend from the penthouse in what's sure to have been one of the most awkward elevator rides, ever.
That suggests they descend from a single individual, alive in the fairly recent evolutionary past, in which the pertinent mutation happened.
It. But in some ways, the most disturbing moment of the recording transpires when Bush and Trump descend from the bus.
Many descend from a legacy of shamans, such as families like the Shipibo or Quechua from Peru, Brazil, and so forth.
Those in Belize, called Old Colony Mennonites, descend from the settlers of Chortitza, the earliest Mennonite colony in the Russian Empire.
It hangs out at the bottom of the ocean, looking for carcasses to descend from above, and then feasts on the remains.
Immigrants are what have always made this country great, and so many of us descend from immigrants, whether generations ago or recently.
The ridge, the valley and their environs, runs one answer: "We that descend from [their former residents] are Melungeons," says Mr Davis.
If she wasn't feeling him and returns to the bungalows, she's back to waiting for another guy to descend from the sky.
Chaldeans, who practice Eastern Rite Catholicism, descend from the ancient Assyrians of what is now northern Iraq, where they are increasingly rare.
Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: Support is crucial toward the start of the race, after runners descend from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
For instance, the new research shows that some modern dogs in the Americas likely descend from ancient dogs that lived with Native Americans.
Nor was there a triumph for its rival, Fianna Fail, a party of pragmatic centrists who descend from opponents of the 1921 deal.
His family claimed to descend from the Prophet Muhammad's tribe, which bolstered al-Baghdadi's claims of leadership over his self-declared Islamic caliphate.
She's full of pride, and she has to descend from that pride in order to grow in another way, which was very interesting.
Like the vast majority of American Jews, I descend from Yiddish-speaking Europeans who settled along the Rhine River around the first millennium.
Senior staffers like Jennifer Palmieri, Jay Carney and David Plouffe descend from Olympus and treat Dorey-Stein with kindness and offer her encouragement.
Here, contractors don't wow you with fancy computer graphics where walls pull away like curtains and fresh cabinets magically descend from the ceiling.
Migrant workers descend from some of the poorest nations on earth — Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines — seeking to support families at home.
The 86 Grand Ronde disenrollees descend from a man known as Chief Tumulth, who signed one of the treaties that created the reservation.
They say they've worked to advocate for black Americans who descend from enslaved people brought to the United States during the transatlantic slave trade.
Mr Hamama is a member of the Chaldean community, who descend from the ancient Assyrians, speak Aramaic and practise Catholicism according to eastern rites.
Watching the rocket descend from above from the perspective of the ship is extremely surreal, especially when you hear the landing rockets kick in.
Imagine, for instance, the global economic catastrophe that would descend from a loss of GPS, a satellite system operated by the U.S. Air Force.
By making Dalí descend from his 'clouds' of genius, bringing him back to the state of human, simple human, I began to love him.
Yet evidence from both fossils and DNA indicates that Neanderthals and living humans descend from a common ancestor who lived about 600,000 years ago.
"Malabaristas do Sinal Vermelho" ("Red-Light Jugglers") speaks of children who descend from the hillside slums and accost drivers stopped at a red light.
Every morning I descend from the sky and then do this thing and then go back up in the sky and then become a crab.
The morals contributing to it descend from tradition and popular belief, and the rational calculus underlying it reflects the realities of social and political power.
Examining their data separately, all three groups came to the same conclusion: All non-Africans descend from a single migration of early humans from Africa.
The Quran says that on this special night, angels descend from heaven — most important, the archangel Gabriel — bringing peace and divine presence into the world.
Ms. Guizzo and Mr. Agard offer us a word ladder (denoted by circled squares), which we are to descend from the top of the grid.
Highly stylized, notched arms descend from the long, beetle-like face of its handle, and braided tresses of human hair billow from the other end.
Indeed, the Dow's latest 20% drop was the fastest in history, taking just 20 days to descend from all-time highs into a bear market.
Townspeople are running and screaming amok, as the monsters descend from somewhere, crashing into cars and buses, while Blunt drives zig-zag down the street.
It is a very cold morning; at this latitude, it is easy for the mercury to descend from -20º C, causing even thoughts to freeze.
Despite what some of us may think, Mariah Carey didn't descend from the heavens on a lifelong mission to bless us with her five-octave range.
The horses, known as mustangs, descend from animals used by ranchers, the US cavalry, and even Spanish explorers who traversed the West hundreds of years ago.
Villar Rojas provides no answer key to this intellectual hunt, and perhaps you'll soon surrender and descend from the roof to search for the original objects.
Species that share these complex cells are known as eukaryotes, and they all descend from a common ancestor that lived an estimated two billion years ago.
Rooms can be reached via a tiny glass elevator or a dizzying steel staircase with a magnificent light fixture that seems to descend from the sky.
That screen told the pilots exactly how and when to configure aircraft components to descend from cruising altitude to 1,000 feet with the least possible noise.
Only in the presence of an alternative—the various movements for shared self-government that descend from the Enlightenment—has any other arrangement really been imagined.
In 2014 this group splintered from the CPN-M, which has a hyphen; both descend from the CPN (Maoist Centre), now a partner in Nepal's coalition government.
There are questions to which Americans must demand answers from the Clinton campaign, should she ever decide to descend from on high for a real press conference.
In an almost pitch-black room, the pearly drapes of light descend from a high ceiling in irregular, conical shapes, making stark outlines on the black carpet.
Meanwhile, Siberian huskies and other Arctic dogs did likely descend from the ancestor of pre-contact dogs, but have plenty of DNA intermingled from European and Asian breeds.
That support is particularly crucial toward the start of the race, after runners descend from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and head onto Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
To start, Mnuchin did not descend from Trump tower in Manhattan to fill a few minutes on one of the Sunday morning shows, reciting carefully choreographed talking points.
They descend from wayward conquistadors, from a doomed colony established on Roanoke Island by Sir Walter Raleigh, or from Moorish galley slaves abandoned there by Sir Francis Drake.
Improbable as it seems, all 7.3 billion souls alive today most likely descend from as few as 600 lucky souls who made it through those ancient genetic bottlenecks.
Almost all of northeast Syria's population lives along this exposed stretch of border, many of whom, Kurds and Christians alike, descend from refugees of 20th century Turkish genocides.
In the winter it usually allows cold air masses to descend from Canada, but lately it has been pushing very warm air northeastward from the Gulf of Mexico.
Sadegh Larijani and his four brothers, widely known as "the Kennedys of Iran," descend from a line of prominent ayatollahs — most notably their father, Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani.
But all indigenous people in the Americas share a common genetic heritage because they descend from people who came from Asia at the end of the Ice Age.
Kushner reportedly suggested kicking off the campaign by having Trump's descend from an escalator at the Trump Tower building in New York City, as he did in 2015.
But this contempt for orange carrots failed to inspire a consumer revolution: almost all modern European carrots descend from a variety originally grown in the Dutch town of Hoorn.
Generally, writers descend from a lesser tribe and whatever claim to beauty we have shows up on the printed page far more often than it does in our mirrors.
Modern Love One night when I was 15 years old, I stood in the center of Studio 54 and watched Grace Jones descend from the ceiling on a swing.
Most bidoon descend from families who resided there long before the creation of the U.A.E.; many were from nomadic tribes and simply failed to register as nationals at the time.
It is easy to forget in our rapidly secularizing culture that many of the political fault lines we know today descend from those sectarian divisions that predate even our founding.
To be an American Indian is not only to descend from the people encountered by European colonisers, in possession of a continent they themselves had settled over 10,000 years before.
Finally, in 20203, a Space Launch System rocket would fly a crewed Orion to the lunar outpost, and (likely) two astronauts would descend from there to the surface and back.
After their launch — whether from the ground, from airplanes or from submarines — they are pulled by gravity as they descend from a powered ascent, or propelled by highly advanced engines.
Svelte bodies, the young with their heads held high, a face, eyes, colors that descend from the air onto people, an adult forehead, a well-formed hand as it gestures.
Both the Bill of Rights, which was incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, and various constitutional declarations of rights adopted by the individual states descend from rights protected by Magna Carta.
Perry has announced that she will be performing a medley of hits, and Variety speculates that she may descend from the ceiling onto the stage like Lady Gaga at the 2017 Super Bowl.
It's the glorious time of year again when our emoji-making overlords descend from the mountains with tales of smiling yellow faces that may one day join all the others on our phones.
I am sure that I descend from many books of several kinds, some that I have prized because of their high merit, some that I have prized because of my need for them.
This is why you can identify the particular paths followed by the women or men of your heritage based on your "haplogroup," or the families of lineages that descend from a common ancestor.
These categories that journalists use to organize their work, which descend from basically the era of the print newspaper, and make total sense to them, actually have no meaning to users at all.
Two singing pianists who loom large in the contemporary lore of New Orleans music, Mr. Butler and Dr. John both descend from the musical parentage of Professor Longhair, the famous barrelhouse piano innovator.
Mother Monster appeared to descend from the top of NRG Stadium to begin her show, which featured a medley of her biggest hits, lightning-fast outfit changes and even some riffing on a keytar.
In an underground food street not far from Tokyo station, Uoharu restaurant is packed most lunchtimes and evenings, frequented by the salarymen and OLs (office ladies) who descend from nearby headquarters of large companies.
His eight-minute-long Snow Demo (2009), for example, depicts 10,000 Styrofoam balls, each fitted with a small parachute, as they descend from off-screen to land in the courtyard of an industrial building.
Although the scenes and songs that follow have their pleasures — Anastacia McCleskey slinks and sings seductively as the tough leader of Mac's prostitutes — the quirks of the plot gradually descend from zany to ludicrous.
The kids descend from the Cantagalo favela two times a day to escape from the harsh realities of the socio-economic vice grip that marginalizes them from most other recreational activities throughout the city.
Visit Nauset Light or Marconi Beach at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts and you will most likely use a new trail or wooden staircase to descend from the parking lot to the beach.
Only on occasion — thanks to a creative block, a desire to make (more) money, or a temporary absence of mind — do artists descend from the empyrean to sanctify the grimy world of designer-makers.
While this isn't ideal for sunbathing, it makes for a truly unique place, where ladders descend from the rocks allowing people to climb down into the sea as if it were a swimming pool.
I didn't want my blackness divvied up or deconstructed any more than it has already been, not just in my lifetime but in the history of the Creole people of Louisiana I descend from.
Moreover, Sanders' advantage with Latino voters in other states doesn't translate to Florida, where many Hispanics are either immigrants or descend from immigrants from Caribbean and Latin American countries whose leftist leaders they despise.
A towering wooden fence, fifteen feet high and a half mile long, runs across the north side of Point Hope, built by the borough to protect against winds that descend from the North Pole.
Almost all African-Americans descend from black people who managed, somehow, to survive the Middle Passage and the soul-crushing ordeal of slavery, America's "peculiar institution," as it was called in the 19th century.
One way we can make sense of this by using a very old but functional definition of religion as simply the belief in nonhuman and supernatural intelligent beings that often descend from the sky.
"Unless you're Native American or you descend from slaves who were brought here against their will, you are an immigrant in this country, or you're a descendant of an immigrant in this country," Mendelsohn said.
In "Flood" (2015), overlapping, blue-green streaked pools descend from the canvas's upper edge, like an aerial view of rice paddies; other elements, however, are presented at eye level, defying conventions of gravity and space.
In one, an old-fashioned air conditioning unit waters a potted plant beneath it, and in the other, drops of water periodically descend from the ceiling, causing a group of heated frying pans to sizzle.
Many residents blamed the authorities of negligence while others questioned how dozens of militants could descend from areas declared free of militants and storm seven villages northeast of Sweida city and create mayhem in the city.
Animals such as parrots and spider monkeys also go to great lengths to get the earth they crave, risking attack when they descend from the tree canopy or emerge from the jungle to exposed sites of clay.
Also perhaps a contraption that would descend from the ceiling and hold the book at the ideal angle and with the ideal light, while one sips tea as the pages turn when you need them to. Ideally.
As I waited for Mr. Harrelson to descend from upstairs, his wife, Laura Louie, wearing a blue fleece vest, was in the kitchen preparing a late-morning snack of fresh fruit smeared with spirulina and almond butter.
We descend from people who won a revolution against great odds, survived a brutal civil war, defied an oligarchy to free millions of slaves, and helped to save the world from the twin threats of Nazism and Communism.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A British climber too weak to descend from Mount Everest died on Saturday, officials said, the eighth climber to die on the world's tallest mountain and the 18th in Nepal's Himalayas during the current climbing season.
The wait to descend from Hillary's Step, a landmark near the mountain's peak, was reportedly as long as two to three hours due to the influx of climbers taking advantage of the first fair weather conditions in days.
Every fairy tale comes with a princess in a castle at its center, and even though they descend from their ivory tower — as Tate memorably does in Tarantino's film — we never for a moment forget that they're princesses.
In earlier studies, researchers had concluded that the hunter-gatherers who live today in the Kalahari Desert and other parts of southern Africa descend from the branch believed to be the first to have divided from other Africans.
By the time they left well into the evening, 100,000 balloons were ready to descend from the heights of the Wells Fargo Arena, drowning the Democratic party's presidential nominee and upper crust in a sea of star-spangled latex.
However, attributing the achievements of the forerunners of darker-skinned peoples to aliens because you believe they couldn't have possibly done it themselves might be perceived as racists to the people of color who descend from these ancient innovators.
Shot on location in England and Sierra Leone—the latter where his family descend from—the film is a love letter of sorts to the spirit of Sampha's late mother and the distinct landscapes of his family's cultural heritage.
Today, they make up two federally recognized tribes, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, and they descend from a confederation of groups that stretched across large areas of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket.
Wildfires in coastal California are not uncommon because the strong winds — known as Diablo winds in the north and Santa Anas in the south — descend from the high desert of Utah and Nevada and blow from October into the winter.
I will now descend from my soapbox with the disclaimer that obviously not all people on social media who like the royal family, especially Meghan and/or Kate, are like this — but there are certainly a lot of people who are.
"People will be safe," New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill said at a news conference, aiming to allay any security concerns about the Times Square celebration, where a giant crystal ball will descend from a tower to mark the start of 573.
It's the type of power that drives many of the contemporary musicians who descend from her, like Kelela and FKA Twigs, artists who are enamored of the tension between what yearnings a voice can describe and what realities a machine can conjure.
Descend from the 27th century straight into the 225st at Rike Park, a feat of modern urban planning that is shaped like the map of Georgia and has picnic areas, a climbing maze, a giant grand piano and a choreographed musical fountain.
Hiram and Bill descend from the couple's only daughter, Cremona Jr. By the time Hiram and Elizabeth wed, in their early twenties, the Montier family had been free for three generations, despite the fact that some Pennsylvanians still held slaves in the 1840s.
"When the UAV departs the AFC, it may descend from the high altitude of the AFC using little or no power other than to guide the UAV towards its delivery destination and/or to stabilize the UAV as it descends," the patent filing explains.
They descend from their chairs — just as they did in the days of tennis trousers and under-the-table payments to amateurs — to settle points of contention by examining the marks in the clay with a player usually close by to discuss the evidence.
Undocumented immigrants have to be carted away while dropping their children off at school because their very presence among us, tolerated (and exploited) for decades, is deemed an affront to those of us lucky enough to descend from immigrants who got here before the gates slammed shut.
On Tuesday night, just 30 minutes before the best-in-show competition at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, he will descend from his sequestered post in the Warwick Hotel in Manhattan to decide, alone, which of the animals is the purest of the purebreds.
Letters To the Editor: Re "The Crazy Talk About Asylums" (editorial, June 3): As the psychiatrist in chief of one of the handful of remaining psychiatric hospitals that descend from the original American asylums, I certainly agree that we do not need a return to the asylum era.
Ms. Prohaska, quick to stress the help of the flying team and Mr. Sharon, mentioned one entrance in which she will descend from above while the stage floor is dropped to the basement level, leaving her dangling almost 60 feet above the nearest surface for one nerve-racking moment.
In the first room, we are told that the bulls of Picasso's "Composition: The Peasants" (1906) descend from their painted landscape of golden hay into the gallery with flowers in their mouths, while the bored woman in Corot's painting joins a tea party with Seurat's nudes in "Models (Poseuses)" (1886–1888).
In January 2013, Kelly announced that, after searching through files at the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in nearby Everett, he had reason to doubt the legitimacy of more than 300 enrolled Nooksacks related to the St. Germains, all of whom claimed to descend from a woman named Annie George, born in 1875.
In an opening montage that's reminiscent of A.J. McLean and Howie D swanning around in the Backstreet Boys' video for "I Want It That Way", DuJour descend from their private jet to greet their screaming fans – most of whom are female, except for one boy whose sexuality is immediately brought into question.
Both Kalyani and Isha descend from rich cultures that originated tens of thousands of years ago—vocalist Kalyani is a Pyemairrenner woman from Trouwunna and Indian multi-instrumentalist Isha was raised in the Hindu spiritual tradition of bhakti yoga—and, when first beginning to write and produce music together, lived in a shed in Wollumbin, 'New South Wales.
That is the dual wonder instilled by the articles in the journal Nature about the extraordinary findings of several groups of scientists on human evolution: first, that at last we can say with almost total certainty that the ancestors of us all — Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, African Pygmies, Mongolian Sherpas, Cree Indians — descend from a single migration out of Africa 50,000 to 80,000 years ago.
As more and more businesses begin to realize they don't need to wait for the internet to descend from the sky for these markets to become hubs of commerce and innovation — and see that it's already happening — I believe 2020 will continue to witness more and more historic tech companies shifting their focus to markets like Africa and that there will be more coverage and discussion as a result.

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