Sentence examples for descended more from inspiring English sources

The tomb descended more than four hundred feet.

By the time my friend and I descended, more than 20 years after Wylie's book was published, the place still had barely changed (though Wylie would have disagreed).

He and several colleagues waited until a helicopter came and rescued a pregnant woman before they descended more than 90 flights of stairs.

Although he descended more than 30 stories, his leap came at a time of day when many residents were still at work or away for the holiday weekend.

Pharaoh hounds, which resemble the dogs from ancient Egyptian tomb paintings, and were assumed to have descended more or less unchanged from the hunting dogs of the Egyptian aristocracy, turn out not to be part of the Afro-Asian group.

June 15 , 1982 A Singapore Airlines flight en route from Singapore to Melbourne, Australia, descended more than 7,000 feet when three of the four engines shut down in an ash plume seven miles high.

Their roots can descend more than a hundred feet in search of groundwater.

His normal working day means descending more than a kilometre into the platinum deposits.

Today, some city wells must descend more than 600 feet to reach clean water.

But the music heard at this church descends more directly from other Christian music.

The track, which is almost a mile long and cost $24 million, descends more than 40 stories through 20 curves.