Ascents is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASCENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ASCENT, a going up
• a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill
• an upward slope or path that one may walk or climb
• an instance of rising or moving up through the air
• a rise to a higher social or professional rank
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of ascending

Words related to ASCENTS

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How to use ASCENTS in a sentence

• Simple Ideas have few Ascents in linea praedicamentali.
• There are ascents which a child almost might attempt in safety, and there are others where the bravest men might well quail.
• In the Pacific Coast States there are a number of mountain climbing clubs whose members compete with each other in making difficult ascents.
• Then he sought one of the ascents, and was soon on the top of the hill.
• Kitty was feeding quietly enough on the hillside, the gentle creature having learned to pass the curtain at the gate, and go up and down the ascents at pleasure.
• And here we might put in a passing word on the subject of these ascents and descents.
• For an hour they rode, now with their ponies scrambling over rocks, now up such steep ascents that the comrades feared the animals would fall over onto them.
• In that campaign also, on account of the steep ascents, the use of locomotives had to be given up.
• The country is hilly, and interspersed with runs, which are crossed with some difficulty, the descents and ascents being very considerable.
• He got on a horse and rode towards the downs, and went up the steep ascents at a gallop.
• It was a steady climb, over a long series of ascents, until we reached a crest from which Tancoco could be seen.
• The road was high and sandy, with occasional small ascents and descents.
• The country through, which we passed has wider bottoms and more timber than those we have been accustomed to see, the hills rising at a distance and by gradual ascents.
• Early in the nineteenth century it became a place of varied amusements, from balloon ascents to comic songs.
• He surmised that its ascents and descents, which seemed arbitrary and unreasonable as he pursued them, were due to other entrances than the one he knew.
• Dawn found them examining the ascents on the south side of the mesa but they found no traces and as the sun came well up they followed the only possible way toward the mountains.
• Thus with lightened heart I started off through a country that, while it did not present any remarkably steep ascents and descents, was very rough and hard to travel.
• The objection of theological prejudice to this developing succession of ascents that it is degrading is an unhealthy mistake.
• This day we went into many villages, and over many ascents and descents.
• We must go faster, and the ground rises in rather steep ascents.
• But Pencroft was such a zealous master, that Top ended by properly performing his ascents, and soon mounted the ladder as readily as his brethren in the circus.
• The night came on dark and menacing, and for near two hours we crawled up and down the sharp ascents and descents, and, to make the matter worse, it began to rain.
• The ascents now became more severe, though we occasionally made as sharp descents.
• Some of the ascents, nevertheless, were sufficiently sharp, and more than once we were glad enough to stop to cool ourselves, and to take breath.
• The land at the back of Point Waterhouse is higher than that of the island, and is composed of grassy, woody hills, rising over each other by gentle ascents.
• We travelled up the hills all day, but made very little progress, owing to the great labour of clearing, and the numerous steep ascents we met with.
• But of the earlier ascents he had spoken differently, though the difference was subtle and hard to define.
• More than one new expedition was described, many variations of old ascents, many climbs already familiar.
• They tried various ascents, and finally discovered a route, which, with some labor might be rendered tolerably easy.
• Most people must have observed the sort of sense they have had on being swiftly drawn in an easy coach on a smooth turf, with gradual ascents and declivities.
• The descent was steep, varied by one or two steep ascents of some hundred feet in height.
• The hills naked or clothed with firs, the path lay along the river Teemboo chiefly, but occasionally we met with one or two stiff ascents.
• So he let his horse breathe wherever the road was broken by ascents.
• In this list are over a dozen volumes describing different ascents of a single mountain, and that not the most difficult.
• I have no fondness for men who come to the Alps to see how quickly they can do the ascents.

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