Sentence examples for descent down from inspiring English sources

Shackleton's 800-mile journey in a tiny boat, the James Caird, back to South Georgia is the stuff of legend, as is his insane descent down a glacier, wearing the remains of a dinner suit.

We made the curvy descent down to Knidos.

Their descent down the table was catastrophic, however, finishing at the very bottom.

He finished fourth with a stirring, if scary, descent down the rock-hard racecourse.

What I wasn't prepared for was the descent down the other side.

After a hair-raising descent down the other side, you enter a new valley system.

Follow the paint marks for a short, sharp descent down ladders to the Hotaka-dake hut.

2.02pm: A group of 14 riders lead the stage on the descent down the Col d'Agnel.

A descent down an unmarked set of stairs might point to a night of bouncers and bottle service.

Others disagreed, comparing her descent down the MediaGuardian 100 – she was 11th three years ago – to "a slow puncture".

Then comes a two-thousand-foot descent down an increasingly narrow canyon, with tilting towers of rock on all sides.