Sentence examples for descent sit from inspiring English sources
Here, citizens of German, Greek, Turkish, Croat and Italian descent sit together over beers to praise each other's children's performance on the soccer field.
Nearby, a young man of Middle Eastern descent sat on a plastic bucket, pencil in hand, sketching the scene and writing in a notebook.
Even in ownership, the N.B.A. is the only major sport in which a person of African descent sits in the owner's box.
While the work of foreign artists and Americans of foreign descent often sits proudly on public display, artistic creations from immigrants can be a harder sell to museums and galleries.
"With this new display of philanthropy, there are many more who are looked at with great interest by these boards," said Ms. Wang, who was born in New Delhi and is of Chinese descent, and now sits on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum, Columbia Business School and other institutions.
If someone of Asian descent were to come on the bus and sit next to my son, he would freeze and tremble.
Although one man of Finnish descent, Marutei Tsurunen, now sits in the Diet as a citizen, only about 100 westerners are naturalised each year.
They are hard to sit on, and they gave me vertigo when I began my descent from the third floor.
