The phrase "ascended like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to create a simile that compares the action of ascending to something else, often to evoke imagery or emotion.
Example: "The balloon ascended like a dream, floating higher and higher into the sky."
Alternatives: "rose like" or "soared like".
Those submarines arrived with stealth and ascended like shadows to darken the old horizon: their fearful weapons systems were American and suddenly so were we.
Yet while all eyes were focused on Mrs Murdoch trash-talking, demanding a bout with Vitali Klitschko and claiming David Haye is "ducking me like a junkyard bitch", the value of Stewart Downing, which has ascended like a lark at morning-tide to the accompanying tuneful chirrup of cash registers, was causing a major shake-up in the UK banking industry.
Today her tears ascended like the frozen snowflakes from the gray December sky.
The picture's visceral shapes seem to ascend like putti in a Renaissance firmament.
For a while it seemed as if the Earls might ascend like Dion.
Bono's voice often starts out low and humble, then ascends like the rock version of a classic Irish tenor as choruses proclaim the possibility of release.
FOUR years ago this newspaper put on its cover a picture of the statue of Christ the Redeemer ascending like a rocket from Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado mountain, under the rubric "Brazil takes off".
Likewise, at the southern end of the range, sits Paklenica national park, with its deep limestone canyons and steep sheets of rock, up which I watched more nimble folk than myself ascend like wee fluorescent spiders.
Some of Bishop's critics have seen the poem's unfolding warmth as erotic — a celebration of her lesbianism — and, certainly, the poem's gorgeous imagery (fireflies ascending like champagne bubbles) might herald the elongating outlook of someone newly in love.
We drove to a glacier just to make sure, and there we found that we could not only ascend like ice climbers, thanks to an extra low first gear as well as traction control and a viscous center coupling (that can transfer power to either axle and reduce wheel spin at any single tire), but HDC could also get us down any mountain of snow we could climb.
Usually, he ascends like a king in a power chair.
