In the archive, the noun descendent appears repeatedly as a misspelling of descendant.

The descendent species of the original finch adapted to different islands.

The chart displayed several descendings of temperature over the week, each steeper than the last.

Fans will descend upon the stadium for the championship game.

After years of research, she confirmed that she was a direct descendant of the famous poet.

The surgeon examined the descending colon carefully to locate the source of the bleeding near the sigmoid colon.

The pathology report described several descending colons with varying degrees of inflammation.

The typographer added a descending s to the reproduction of the eighteenth-century text.

During the observation, the telescope recorded a sudden fluctuation as the comet passed through the descending nodes of its orbit.

The mission planners scheduled the orbit correction burn to occur as the probe crossed the descending node.