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Example sentences for "ascended the"

  • A battle took place, in which Macrinus was defeated, and soon after put to death; and Elagabalus, for that is the name under which this monster is commonly known, ascended the throne.

  • He was preceded by the captives and spoils taken in war, was followed by his troops, and, after passing in state along the Via Sacra, ascended the Capitol to offer sacrifice in the Temple of Jupiter.

  • After the failure of the royal line, Theudes, a valiant and powerful chief, ascended the throne of Spain, which he had formerly administered in the name of Theodoric and his infant grandson.

  • With reluctant steps he ascended the Lactarian mount, where the physicians of Rome, since the time of Galen, had sent their patients for the benefit of the air and the milk.

  • The death of Constantine was imputed to poison; and his son Romanus, who derived that name from his maternal grandfather, ascended the throne of Constantinople.

  • Then resting on the arm of the abbe, he ascended the steps of the scaffold.

  • The last of the ladies, the Marchioness de Crussol d'Amboise, had received the parting kiss and ascended the steps of the guillotine.

  • He ascended the steps, and his countenance beamed with the same light of rapture which had surrounded Elizabeth's brow.

  • I hurried, at length, from the fatal spot, and, directed by the lanthorn which he bore, ascended the hill.

  • Taking a key from his pocket, he opened the little door, and followed by his two companions, the curate and the female, ascended the stairs.

  • Manuel [80] immediately sailed from Modon in the Morea; ascended the throne of Constantinople, and dismissed his blind competitor to an easy exile in the Isle of Lesbos.

  • I crossed the room, ascended the steps, and found myself in what the waiters called the club-room.

  • She wore nothing over her evening dress save a lace scarf, which she untwisted as we ascended the stairs.

  • I ascended the stairs, and made my way through the drawing-room on to the terrace.

  • He ascended the throne of his father Philip before twenty, and at twenty-five had reached the zenith of his military glory, having already conquered the world.

  • As soon as he ascended the throne, he transmitted a circular epistle to all the governors of provinces; in which he confessed the divine truth, and secured the legal establishment, of the Christian religion.

  • Little more was left when Constantine ascended the throne, than a vague and imperfect tradition, that the Patricians had once been the first of the Romans.

  • He also discovered many new birds when he ascended the Mount St. Isabel.

  • Alexander, not yet twenty years of age, ascended the throne.

  • During the course of the day we ascended the river to visit the settlement of Chinese lately established here.

  • We ascended the river in eight or ten boats.

  • We ascended the river by night, anchored a short distance from the Songi, in a tide-way like a sluice, and entered the smaller river shortly after daylight.

  • The morning after killing the deer we ascended the Singè again by a desperately steep path; and after resting an hour or two, walked to our boats, and descended the stream to Siniawan.

  • The three Kafirs were talking together as he ascended the bank, and Doda related to him the tradition of the Sunless Kloof.

  • I walked swiftly through the avenues, ascended the mound, and went to our old accustomed seat under the plane-tree.

  • Suffice it to say that he ascended the throne of Nicaea as Michael VIII.

  • Romanus was sixty when he ascended the throne.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ascended the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ascended the; before said; certain branches; coach home; cold perspiration; different distances; good ground; good scout; guess likely; has been already stated; letter written; little maiden; newly come; ought rather; single room; special court; strong impression; take stock; taking leave; teaspoon soda; that with; the father