Sentence examples for descent a from inspiring English sources
"We have somebody of Indian descent, a couple African-Americans.
The cell's members killed eight men of Turkish descent, a Greek and a German policewoman.
Definition 1: A person of Hebrew descent; a person whose religion is Judaism.
The ascent takes three or four (pretty tough) days, the descent a day.
As we began our descent, a middle-aged couple passed us on their way up.
She was of Chinese descent, a college graduate looking for a job.
Lee, of Chinese descent, & a brilliant impulsive, and sometimes irascible man, was, along with a few Malayan & British statesman, instrumental in forming the Malaysian Federation, in Sept., 1963.
Irwin, like half of all border patrol agents, is of Latino descent -- a fact which he believes has informed his sympathy for undocumented Latino immigrants, as well as an understanding of racial profiling.
Caves are like living organisms, James Tabor wrote in "Blind Descent," a book on Bill Stone's earlier expeditions.
Instead, it is whether its slowdown will be a gradual descent a little bumpy at times but free from crisis or a sudden, dangerous lurch lower.
An alternative idea is that it drives from directed aerial gliding descent a preflight phenomena found in some apterygote, a wingless sister taxa to the winged insects.
