Verb (used with object) : The path descends the hill.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : to descend from the mountaintop. ,The path descends to the pond. ,The title descends through eldest sons. ,He is descended from Cromwell. ,This festival descends from a druidic rite. ,Thrill-seekers descended upon the scene of the crime. ,Jupiter descended to humankind. ,to descend upon enemy soldiers. ,He would never descend to baseness.    From Dictionary.com. 

Here are the twelve "winners", in descending order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daimnation!: The First Annual Daimnation! Despicable] Reference

List them in descending order of importance for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which Activities Should Go On My College Applications? « Literacy Activities « Literacy Help « Literacy News] Reference

Top ten states by % of Catholics, in descending order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Charles Murray Sees Nonwhite People] Reference

Ryder Cup points list and sent out players in descending order.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - USA no match for Europe at Ryder Cup] Reference

We were now sensibly descending from the high elevation of Azerbijan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference

These are the top ten least ideal district sizes, in descending order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - House of Delegates district size deviations.] Reference

These were the top ten least ideal district sizes, in descending order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - House of Delegates district size deviations.] Reference

After that, other descendants, in descending order of age, did the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference

Clive had the gift of perfect pitch and heard them descending from the G.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan] Reference

But what, upon descending from the chaise, was the horrour of her first news!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference

I lost it at one point when we were descending from the hill town of Castelnou.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

He works his jaw, and his ears pop as if he were descending from a great height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg] Reference

Shawn Michaels is descending from the heavens in a white Undertaker-style outfit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liveblogging WrestleMania 25] Reference

Issues in descending order of importance: speed - upload and download uptime cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [What internet providers are available in Michoacan (Morelia)?] Reference

Which four tech giants get the most ink, screen, and airtime, in descending order?.    From Wordnik.com.  [News quiz: The week in tech] Reference

I read that the Israelis fired warning shots before descending from the helicopter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident] Reference

A short-term descending trend line is providing target levels to enter and exit positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Currency Trading News by DailyFX] Reference

Only in those deep wells where elevators are rising and descending is there shadow or mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [This American Life] Reference

Here are the bus lines that go from Guadalajara to Guanajuato in descending order of cost/comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buses to the border] Reference

On the American frigate, the officers gather around the conference table in descending order of rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott] Reference

A short-term descending-tops downtrend, however, means the TSEC is soon encountering a critical juncture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia Times Online] Reference

Rounding out the top five smart cities are in descending rank, San Francisco, San Jose, Raleigh, N.C., and Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. is America's smartest city. (We won't lord it over you.)] Reference

Which four tech giants get the most ink, screen, and airtime, in descending order? a. Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook.    From Wordnik.com.  [News quiz: The week in tech] Reference

"Do you want to fight?" said Dan, promptly descending from the barrel and doubling up his fists in a business-like manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys] Reference

The entrance was by way of a flight of steps descending from the sidewalk to what was properly the cellar of the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses] Reference

We discuss our afterhours short trade on thursday as the SPY finally hit our resistance of the longer term descending channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The next day was spent by our party in descending the crater to the very limits of its seething fires, but I remained at the hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen] Reference

Price action has traded along a short-term descending trend line which is providing target levels for entering and exiting positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Currency Trading News by DailyFX] Reference

The pair stabilized trading above resistance line for the short term descending channel that insures the suggested scenario yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

The roads here are so steep and so slippery in descending and ascending to and from the Kei, they are totally impassable to the waggons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference

A vivid and poetic image to picture the stream turbid and black with melted ice and snow, descending from the mountains into the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

The GBP/USD has been in a longer-term descending channel and the pair is currently testing the upper bound of the formation near 1.5200.    From Wordnik.com.  [Currency Trading News by DailyFX] Reference

The pair continues trading within the short term descending channel, where the pair is nearing its resistance at 91.35 and met by MA 200.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

The recent rise above the long-term descending trendline (B - see dotted line) suggests that the stock is on the verge of such a breakout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference