Sentence examples for to descend over from inspiring English sources

When the plane from Moscow started to descend over Warsaw, my neighbor trembled, squeezed the arms of his seat with both hands, and closed his eyes.

The afternoon sun was beginning to descend over Roden, and we left the lodge and followed a short path to the main entrance, a pair of high metal doors.

Whiteside's Talk story compared the Three Mile Island accident to a 1976 explosion in Italy which caused a dioxin-contaminated cloud to descend over the town of Seveso, near Milan.

There was that spring when Robert was twelve and an invisible barrier seemed to descend over the neighborhood, and over the course of a month a handful of birds appeared with broken wings and Robert became skilled at capturing them, sneaking up with soothing words and a ready towel.

The reduced winds, which eased to less than 20 miles an hour today after gusting at more than 60 miles an hour on Thursday, helped firefighters today, but they also allowed a heavy pall of grayish smoke to descend over hundreds of square miles.

If you're coming back from space at high speeds, it's generally safer to descend over water than land, for a number of reasons.

"A deadly hush descended over the assembled guests. . . .

A mist descended over the rodeo, and a ghostly figure appeared.

Sitting down on a bench to rest, she recalled an epiphany she had one winter on a flight to New York, when the plane, beginning to descend, passed over Atlantic City.

In the recently introduced production of Verdi's "Traviata," for example, a floral backdrop is meant to descend slowly, over roughly nine minutes, but the Met's motors were incapable of such a controlled fall.

For example, the unopposed tension of lateral vector face-lifts allows the cheek tissues to descend eventually over the tightened jawline, creating a 'lateral sweep' or pulled-back appearance in the face.