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adjective

ascending

moving or going or growing upward

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ascending, each labelled with its topic.

  • The chorus lifts on an ascending run of five notes that leaves the melody hanging above the band.

    Music

  • An ascending path of two thousand steps brought us to the temple gate just as the fog cleared.

    Travel

  • Traders cheered an ascending line of quarterly earnings that had not broken its climb in eleven straight reports.

    Finance

  • A defender may swat the shot while it is still ascending, but touching it on the way down is goaltending.

    Basketball

  • Wright designed the Guggenheim as one ascending ramp, so visitors climb gently past the paintings instead of taking stairs between floors.

    Architecture

  • Hawks circle inside an ascending column of warm air, gaining height for an hour without a single flap.

    Science

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