Descents is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESCENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DESCENT, the act of descending
• an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling
• a downward slope
• a moral, social, or psychological decline
• the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality
• the transmission of qualities, property, or privileges by inheritance.
• a sudden violent attack
• an unexpected visit

Words related to DESCENTS

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How to use DESCENTS in a sentence

• The war was thenceforth continued only by sallies of the Carthaginians from the Sicilian fortresses and their descents on the Italian coasts.
• Then there are breathless descents where the pines fall away.
• Meanwhile Gabinius died of sickness and he gained control of the whole sea in that vicinity, and by making descents upon the land did the inhabitants much harm.
• From the summit an inclined plane of masonry descends the mountain nine hundred feet, broken every one hundred and fifty feet by perpendicular descents.
• It was in these vessels that we made the long journeys from island to island, the migrations and the descents upon other Polynesian peoples in war.
• Heere are many rising hilles, and on their tops and descents many come fields, and delightfull groues.
• The ride was monotonous, over a road which made few ascents or descents, and presented little of variety or interest.
• There are four impressions on different terraces, each rising above the other, corresponding to the four descents of the deity.
• Not only were trading-vessels seized, but descents were made upon the shore, and the inhabitants swept off into slavery.
• It seems almost profanation to compare it with the Hindu teaching regarding the Avataras, or descents of Vishnu.
• The excited dog, unused to such descents, snatched it up and ran off.
• The country which he saw was in most parts level, but occasionally became varied by gentle rises and descents, but with no timber except along the water.
• Often the trail leads over high hills, with long hard steep climbs to be made and sometimes dangerous descents.
• In this interesting relic, then, we have one of the identical boats in which the descents upon the British coast were first made.
• I drew the law of descents, giving equal inheritance to sons and daughters which made a part of the revised code.
• What did he want else? Only a matter of six descents, a little money, and an estate, to render him the equal of St.
• The whole strength of Great Britain, during this campaign, was not exhausted in petty descents upon the coast of France.
• Further to the east they become gradually lower, so that near the White Sea they seldom exceed fifty or one hundred feet, with less precipitous descents.
• Often the pirates combined and made descents upon the coast as in the past.
• In one of these descents it seemed driving straight at the drifting park of balloons in the southeast, and only curved about and cleared them by a sudden recovery of dexterity.
• He made several descents on the coast of this island, burned Maracaibo, Puerto Cabello, Veragua, and other places, and was killed at last by the Indians of Darien.
• Masinissa, with not more than fifty horsemen, disengaged himself from the defile by passing through steep descents of the mountains, which were not known to his pursuers.

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