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• Men and women clothed and shod for the ascent.From the entry shoe
• After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.From the entry plummet
• The high speed of a rocket during its ascent through the atmosphere generates considerable levels of dynamic pressure that the rocket's structure has to withstand without buckling.From the entry dynamic pressure
• For all its nosebleed ascents, bitcoin also has had some gut-punching plunges.2024 November 19, Jeanne Sahadi, “Bitcoin has smashed records. Should you invest?”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 04 Jun…. From the entry volatile
• Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 10 times, the most ascents ever by a woman.2023 January 31, Bhadra Sharma, Adam Skolnick, “The Queen of Everest trains while working at whole foods”, in The New York Times (Sports…. From the entry Mount Everest
• Hover height, rate of ascent, and the rate of descent are controlled by using the collective.2021 July 27, Federal Aviation Administration, Helicopter Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-21B, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry collective
• The band’s ascent is exciting and bewildering – until it isn’t.2021 October 17, Kitty Empire, “The Storyteller by Dave Grohl – a Foo Fighter pulls his punches”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry cushy number
• But “Configuration,” a zipperlike jolt of ascent from Coltrane’s late period, played to everyone’s strengths.2009 September 25, Nate Chinen, “It Feels Like Home: The Sounds of Coltrane”, in New York Times. From the entry zipperlike
• Reardon made hundreds of free-solo ascents of challenging climbing routes done onsight, meaning without rehearsal or practice.2007 July 18, Bill Becher, “Rock Climber Presumed Dead After Accident Off Irish Coast”, in New York Times. From the entry onsight
• Put another way, our ascent to Consciousness will result in the surcession of death.2000, Alan M. Laibelman, The Other Perennial Philosophy: A Metaphysical Dialectic, page 196. From the entry surcession
• The letter t often falls short of both the capline and the line of ascent.1998, Sandra M. Bryan, Illustrator Draftsman: Executionable practices, page 14. From the entry capline
• Active, vibrant and HIV-positive, she continued her ascent among Washington, D.C.'s politically influential.1995, Muriel L. Whestone, “Rae Lewis-Thornton, AIDS Victim Marries And Faces Life And Death”, in Ebony, page 124. From the entry HIV-positive
• A brief steep ascent and then a more gradual ascent through snow.1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 9. From the entry wasted
• To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably prologetic, flight of steps.1928, Heinrich Khunrath, translated by Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Conclusion, page 203. From the entry prologetic
• Publishes books for bookly minded folk and THE STEP LADDER, a monthly journal of bookly ascent.1926, Henry Louis Mencken, The American mercury: Volume 9. From the entry bookly
• Would an ascent without additional oxygen still be possible?2018 August 5, Johanna Stöckl, “Reinhold Messner and his famous expedition to Mount Everest: “You mutate into a zombie””, in ISPO. From the entry nine-thousander
• There are two important differences between typical undercutters and the role of reflective ascent in the face of disagreement.2011, Evidentialism and its Discontents, page 52. From the entry undercutter
• Within such frames of analysis, any notion of the ascent of selfhood is but idle teleological myth, a humanist hagiography.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.1, at p.14, 15. From the entry thought
• Those deep, dark slots in a mountain known as couloirs are often the most obvious routes of ascent.1978, Yvon Chouinard, Climbing Ice, page 145. From the entry couloir
• A narrow multistory window bathes the ascent in natural light, the glow shifting over the course of the day in step with the sun.2026 May, Sam Cochran, “Feeling Zen”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 100. From the entry multistory
• These experiments investigate the ascent of a slug of gas in a vertical liquid-filed tube featuring a flare that abruptly doubles the cross sectional area.2010, Robert A. Meyers, Extreme Environmental Events, page 1198. From the entry slug
• Zoncolan is a fabled leg breaker of a 13.3km climb that is one of the toughest ascents ever included in a major stage race.2003 May 22, Tim Maloney, “First Edition News for May 22, 2003”, in cyclingnews.com, retrieved 05 Jan 2009. From the entry leg-breaker
• The line of ascent is drawn above or on the capline and equals approximately one third the distance between the capline and baseline.1998, Sandra M. Bryan, Illustrator Draftsman: Executionable practices, page 14. From the entry capline
• At length we started the ascent.March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 279. From the entry freshets
• It was unclear whether Pasang Dawa Sherpa planned a third ascent of Everest this season, which started in April and ends the first week of June.2023 May 23, Bhadra Sharma, Sameer Yasir, “4 Everest Ascents in 10 Days: Sherpas Battle for a Climbing Record”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Everest
• His show was modeled on earlier talk shows that dipped the occasional toe in the mud, like Phil Donahue's, and its ascent came alongside the likes of Howard Stern.2023 April 27, James Poniewozik, “Jerry Springer Was TV's Biggest Populist (Give or Take a President)”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry trashification
• It was a technical ascent involving ropework, belays, and protection, and the exposure was great, but there were abundant hand and footholds, and the rock was sound.2014, Stephen C. Sieberson, The Naked Mountaineer: Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler. From the entry technical
• The morning we stood on Monte de Gozo,and saw the cathedral spires as though floating in the distance, the sun was already making its ascent into the pale sky.2008, Cecilia Samartin, Tarnished Beauty: A Novel, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry wisp
• The apotheotic vector is totally marginal in the Hebrew Bible and it appears solely in the brief descriptions of the ascent to heaven by Enoch and Elijah.2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, page 6. From the entry apotheotic
• Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma, he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual.2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 82. From the entry soma
• It was May now and summer was on the ascent, the nights were warm but not yet clawingly humid and the constant South Dakota breeze was strangely absent tonight.2004, Jennifer Marshall, The Christie Legacy, page 288. From the entry clawingly
• The only sure references to the ascent of the throne are found in context with Ur, however, and no and incontrovertible evidence was recoronations in the full sense.1986, Richard H. Wilkinson, Mesopotamian Coronation and Accession Rites in the Neo-Sumerian and Early Old-Babylonian Periods, University…. From the entry recoronation
• Rewanui has a regular service of passenger trains, which are allowed 30 min. for the ascent of the incline, and 5 min. less for the descent.1955 January, “Notes and News: Fell-Operated Inclines, New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 63. From the entry Rewanui

Meaning of ascent

1. noun The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
2. noun The way or means by which one ascends.
3. noun An eminence, hill, or high place.

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How do you use ascent in a sentence?

Ascent is used as a noun. For example: “He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.”

What is a short sentence with ascent?

“At length we started the ascent.”

What does ascent mean?

Ascent means the act of ascending; a motion upwards.