Sentence examples for descended it from inspiring English sources

In what the firm's engineers call a useful failure, the rocket's engines restarted as planned, but as the stage descended it began spinning, flinging its remaining fuel against the walls of its tanks and starving its motors, causing it to crash.This week's test is intended to end up with the rocket in the ocean, chiefly for safety reasons in case something does go wrong.

The river was named for Simon Fraser, who first descended it to the Pacific Ocean in 1808.

When the ball descended, it fell not into the bleachers, but into Jones's glove, a short distance from the wall.

As Huygens descended, it drifted over a plateau, above, toward a landing in the dark area at right.

The rocket took off, it descended, it disappeared because none of the closed-circuit TV cameras were trained on the place where the rocket actually landed.

Then we swam to the anchor line and descended it hand over hand, equalizing the pressure inside our heads by holding our noses and blowing.

As it descends, it becomes compressed and warmer, its relative humidity falling further.

The party later traveled north, descended the Lemhi River to the Salmon and attempted to descend it to the Snake, but found it impassable because of its violent rapids.

Ascending, the car is on the outside of each turn; descending, it must take the tighter inside lane.

I begin to hanker for this each year as autumn descends: it is a wonderful way of celebrating the season.

In an attempt to escape, Hock appropriates Manyenga's motorbike, reaches the Lower River, descends it in a canoe and fetches up at a village filled with children.