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How To Use ascent In A Sentence

• Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
• This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
• At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
• While the generally liberal-leaning U.S. foreign policy establishment was quick to equate Obama's ascent to the presidency with a "new area of international engagement," the realities of realpolitilk has not only forced the President into a "straightjacket" with limited policy options vis-à-vis Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Sigurd Neubauer: Tea Partiers, Watch Out: Obama's Iran Policies Echo Bush's
• Reaching the shrouds hanging from Kaliakra's starboard side, he began his ascent.
• Is that strangling the nascent ‘alarm tone’ market?
• P. testa ovata, rimata, ferruginea; spira mediocri, apice eroso; anfractibus tribus, convexis, simplicibus, transversim crebre crenato-striatis; apertura ovata, intus purpurascente; labio tenui, late reflexo; labro acuto. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
• I finned madly for the surface, and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon.
• Toasting their successful ascent to the summit, she lifts her flask in the air, and father waves his walking stick.
• They may involve several independent elements, such as orbiters, sub-satellites, landers, rovers, penetrators, airborne robots, planetary ascent vehicles or re-entry vehicles.