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ascensions

n. (plural of ascension English)

Usage examples of "ascensions".

I heard of your balloon ascensions out here in the provinces, so I have come from Paris just to meet and greet a fellow French aéronaute.

However, in thousands of aerial ascensions, there have not been twenty fatal accidents.

So, having nothing else to do, I joined a circus again, and made my balloon ascensions until the earthquake caught me.

It hurt the mind to think in such terms, as Rainbow wryly put it when he showed her how to calculate the circumference of the world by comparing star-ascensions at places on the same meridian but a known distance apart.

From the chimneys of the farmhouses thin ascensions of blue smoke signaled preparations for a day’s peaceful toil.

Sharp he has made too many ascensions to run into any unnecessary danger.