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Discover LudwigThe word "descends" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe the movement of something or someone downward, such as when a plane descends towards the runway. For example, "The birds descended from the sky to search for food."
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descends
verb
Third person singular of descend
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Co-directed with past collaborator Nick Knight, the video, as first shown on The Ellen Show, begins with pure intentions but soon descends into sexual surrealism.
Though the main character, Danny, descends into hell, his return from hell involves a literary awakening.
And if diversity descends into window dressing, it isn't diversity at all.
Taxi drivers have to loop around to find it, you have to walk through a semi-construction area to get there from the SkyBus, and once you arrive – gloom descends.
It's a society that appears ever more stratified the more he comes to understand it, and which eventually descends into war and chaos while Orr rides away on trains that have no apparent endpoint or purpose.
As the afternoon wears on, a white civilian aid helicopter of a type the soldiers nickname the Jinglebird descends loudly from the cloudy sky.
Their disorientation is best represented by Henry Oliver, aka Sir Galahad, who, in this harsh winter, descends from the train in a light summer suit and appears surprised when asked if he isn't cold.
But unlike Laws, who can still rub along with his departmental boss in private, no one thinks the Lib Dem leader is faking the fury that descends whenever Gove's name crops up.
Yesaya looks frail as he descends the few stairs from his house.
As the night descends over Buenos Aires at the end of my time with him, Ignacio Hurban is now fully transformed into Ignacio Montoya Carlotto the rising musician, talking about his new project, the Ignacio Montoya Carlotto Septeto.
Alvo's geezerish banter descends into relentless one-upmanship and his behaviour quickly becomes unsettling, to say the least.
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