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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