Sentence examples for they were ascending from inspiring English sources

They slept exclusively at night, and typically when they were ascending.

Rescuers said the two climbers had been "very well equipped", but their rope reportedly undone as they were ascending up the 13,000-feet "Giant's Tooth".

All the Jets heard after toppling New Orleans on Nov. 3 was that they were ascending, that a postseason berth seemed less a possibility than part of a natural progression, a reward for their belief and hard work.

However, there has long been great uncertainty and considerable debate about all this, especially whether the pair made it to the top that day and if they were ascending or descending the mountain when Odell spotted them.

Mohammed Ali of Karakurum Magic Mountains, which had organised the climb of a five-strong team of Romanians, said he believed all were safe as they were ascending the Rupal face, on the other side of the mountain from the Diamir base camp.

Voeckler was later joined by seven other riders as they were ascending the Col du Barioz.

Also, basaltic magmas have enough excess heat to partially melt the continental host rocks through which they are ascending.

And conservatives can remain irate, even when they are ascending.

Since the late 1970s (e.g. Rockland and Pandya 1979), it has been known that extrinsic corticocortical (ignoring thalamocortical) connections between areas in the visual system have distinct laminar characteristics, which depend on whether they are ascending (forward) or descending (backward).

If they're ascending the wrong hill, you get them up the right one.

The stronger Hindus were ascending too, still buoyant with endeavour.