How to Use "descent" with Example Sentences

1. Some worry about a descent to italian standards .

2. But in the case of balloons , the descent sometimes comes sooner than expected .

3. After traveling roughly 80000 kilometers ( 50000 miles ) , the spacecraft deployed its initial chutes to stabilize and slow its descent .

4. Researchers have observed , for example , that long-haul pilots who sleep during flights perform better when maneuvering aircraft through the critical stages of descent and landing .

5. Each nonterminal in a parsing expression grammar essentially represents a parsing function in a recursive descent parser , and the corresponding parsing expression represents the " code " comprising the function .

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abasement debasement grace from fall decline degradation moral

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