Sentence examples for a descent of from inspiring English sources

It has a descent of only 5 feet (1.5 metres) and is navigable by excursion boats.

This two-centre holiday combines a descent of the Ardèche river with the coastal charms of Narbonne on the Mediterranean.

We came to the edge of the canyon and started down, a descent of about 50 metres into a narrow gorge with red rock walls.

It drops like a roller coaster, a descent of nearly a mile, plunging through gorges as the powerful current scrapes boulders white, as if with a steel brush.

That was the case in 2004 when Germany's Jan Ullrich span off into a hayfield at 80kmph on a descent of the Pyrenees.

A few seconds later, Mr. Hammerschmidt said, the crew advised that the plane had descended to 23,700 feet, meaning a descent of nearly a mile and a half.

Business cards still flutter like confetti from that tapestry bag, and her big entrance still involves a beaded gown and a goddesslike descent of a near-legendary staircase.

However, some critics lament what they see as a further descent of a serious museum into the cult of celebrity.

In either case − s ~ is a descent direction of the dual function.

Lemma 5 shows that the projected Newton direction (bar{d}_{N}) is a descent direction of (Psi(x)) at x.

The airspeed should be 65 knots, with full flaps and a descent rate of 500 feet (152.4 m).