Sentence examples for scend from inspiring English sources

The cabinets in the library are too low, the grab rails in the showers are in the wrong spot, the tenders are surprisingly utilitarian compared to those of other cruise ships; there's no pool, not even a hot tub; and, worst of all for this seafarer, passengers are not allowed on the forepeak to savor the plunge and scend of the waves.

The cabinets in the library are too low (you practically have to genuflect to read the titles), the grab rails in the showers are in the wrong spot, the tenders are surprisingly utilitarian compared to those of other cruise ships; there's no pool, not even a hot tub; and, worst of all for this thwarted seafarer, passengers are not allowed on the forepeak to savor the plunge and scend of the waves.

That, on the contrary, is elaborate and fastidious and slightly dictionary-drunk, so that the words rendering all this scarcity are "vatic"' and "pinchbeck", "scends" and "chevon".

("Don't con-den-scend me, man," is Pitt's famous retort after Gandolfini's character exits the scene).