Use low in a sentence
Sentences starting with low
- Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
- Low water, too, when every rock's got its chance at the canoe. [11]
- Low whines came up from below. [13]
- Low padded thuds told him horses were coming this way. [13]
- Low moans came to his ears. [11]
- Low whisperings came through the dusk like mournful nightwinds carrying tales of awe through a heavy forest. [11]
- Low music echoes through the breezes warm; The violet lends the poppy her sweet breath; The song of nightingales is heard, a swarm Of butterflies flit hov'ring o'er the heath. [10]
- Low swells of prairie-like ground sloped up to the west. [13]
- Low foreheads and heavy faces they all had; some had a look of animal cunning, while the most were only stupid. [5]
- Low growls of dogs came in quick reply. [11]
Sentences ending with low
- By his influence with Ismail he had even more power at last than the Chief Eunuch or the valet-de-chambre, before whom the highest officials bowed low. [11]
- We camped there, where the loam was trampled and torn by countless herds of bison, and had only parched corn and the remains of a buffalo steak for supper, as the meal was mouldy from its wetting, and running low. [9]
- An', Jane," he went on, almost in a whisper, "I reckon it'd be a good idea for us to talk low. [13]
- But now--" Foyle's voice was hoarse and low. [11]
- Mr. Langdon is very low. [5]
- For the first time since her entrance she gazed around the large, long apartment, which would have deserved the name of hall had it not been too low. [10]
- Away down yonder, they have driven two rows of piles straight through the middle of a dry bar half a mile long, which is forty foot out of the water when the river is low. [5]
- At any rate there is evidence that in the Turkish Empire as late as 1616 tobacco was still somewhat a novelty, and the smoking of it was regarded as vile, and a habit only of the low. [4]
- She now entered the large hall which was dimly lighted by the lamps behind the sculptor's screen, and by several tapers, now burnt down low. [10]
- For Billy's hand --the hand of Kathleen's brother--had brought him low. [11]
Short sentences using low
- He's a low thief, sir. [12]
- Her low exclamation startled Hermon. [10]
- My tail hangs low. [5]
- Langdon is very low. [5]
- His voice was low. [5]
- Suddenly Ring growled low. [13]
- Smiling, he bowed low. [11]
- Certainly that's a low estimate. [5]
- He was a low coward. [11]
- The lights were burning low. [5]
Sentences containing low two or more times
- All the lights were turned low, so low that the congregation sat in a deep and solemn gloom. [5]
- Suddenly Venters was startled by a low, rumbling roar--so low that it was like the roar in a sea-shell. [13]
- The fact is, she was rather low family; not so very low, you know, but not so good as mine. [4]
- So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy--and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned. [5]
- Yet I had not been faithful to the ancient law, and so through the long years I have done low work among a low people. [11]
- The mare leaned low on her bit, and travelled like a thirsty hound to water, the sorrel tugged at the snaffle, and went like a bullmoose hurrying to his herd, "That long low gallop that can tire The hounds' deep hate or hunter's fire. [11]
- It is your duty, you of the low people, to kill me who has killed a low man; but my friends by the Yang-tze-kiang were glad that the ruler died, and you of the low people are glad that Joel is dead. [11]
- And they wouldn't anybody go low neck to the opera-house there, either--not low neck the way they do here, anyway. [8]
More example sentences with the word low in them
- We shall telegraph Young's Hotel for rooms Saturday night, in order to allow for a low average of pedestrianism. [5]
- I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. [7]
- I will reward you for it with the only thing that the daughter of the wealthy Krates cannot purchase, yet which she probably rates at no low value--the love of her royal friend. [10]
- He did not yet feel that he could stoop so low as to receive a gift from this young upstart. [10]
- But when the wrapper was taken off the clay figures, he uttered a low snarl, and his flushed face turned pale. [10]
- In low, kind words she spoke of his coming and the renewal of her hopes, coupled with fear also that he might not fit in with his new life, and--she could say it now--do something unbearable. [11]
- I did not wonder then, but I have since thought it remarkable that the words spoken low by both of them should have been caught up on the banquette and passed into the street. [9]
- The wagons are without seats, and the canvas is too low to admit of sitting upright, if there were. [4]
- They wore dresses with wide skirts and flounces, and queer low collars and bonnets. [9]
- Lassiter traveled slower, with more exceeding care as to the ground he chose, and he kept speaking low to the dogs. [13]
- Her words came with low vehemence. [11]
- He also listened with keen attention when the scientists finally discussed in low tones what they had perceived, and caught the words, "White scar on the cornea," "leucoma," and "operation. [10]
- Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. [2]
- It fills them with grief and alarms; and, would you believe it--such anguish of mind, especially when the Nile is so low and there is more sickness than usual, gives rise to numberless forms of disease? [10]
- Larks flew heavenward with a low sweet song, from amidst the grain growing luxuriantly for the winter harvest, and butterflies hovered above the blossoming fields. [10]
- John returned presently with a carriage, got the broken-hearted artist and the broken-legged statue aboard, and drove off, whistling low and tranquilly. [5]
- I shall be willin', however, to retain your services at sech redooced rate as we shall fix upon,--provided sech redooced rate be as low or lower than the same services can be obtained elsewhere. [6]
- Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
- Next summer we will put up a house there, not a very big house, just a long, low sort of a Moorish pavilion, the architect calls it. [4]
- Veille = a wide low settle. [11]
- A horseman with whom we rode in the morning gave us a very low estimate of the trustworthiness of the inhabitants. [4]
- When the doctor who had been called arrived, Carmen was in a heap by the low couch, one arm thrown across the body, and her head buried in the cushion close to his. [4]
- The long, low, white house there. [12]
- The manner in which, after he permitted her to speak, she had disclosed in a low whisper her happy yet disquieting secret, hovered before him now as one of the most pathetic incidents in a life full of varied experiences. [10]
- Besides, many words which the two exchanged escaped her hearing, for they talked in low tones, and it was hot in the tent. [10]
- The low words which the artist exchanged with the woman whose love, even during the period of separation, would shed light and warmth upon his darkened life, were deeply impressed upon the souls of both. [10]
- It matters not whether they treat of middle-class life, of low, slum life, or of drawing-room life and lords and ladies; they are equally flat and dreary. [4]
- Perhaps he guessed what was going on in me, for he said in a low, cultured voice: "The wheels will stop too long some time, and there will be no rebound;" --referring to the irregular action of his heart. [11]
- He knew now what it means to live bereft of light, and, he added in a low tone, to be also poor and unable to earn his daily bread. [10]
- The dark spruces were tipped with glimmering lights; the aspens bent low in the winds, as waves in a tempest at sea; the forest of oaks tossed wildly and shone with gleams of fire. [13]
- Her little feet were shod with handsome gold sandals set with sapphires, and she seated herself on a low bench with a satisfied smile, as though to assist at a theatrical performance. [10]
- The two houses were separated by an ordinary yard, with a low fence running back through its middle from the street in front to the lane in the rear. [5]
- Albeit my spirits were low, 'twas no small entertainment to watch the doctor and his rivals at their adieus. [9]
- The station buildings were long, low huts, made of sundried, mud-colored bricks, laid up without mortar (adobes, the Spaniards call these bricks, and Americans shorten it to 'dobies). [5]
- Twelve hundred men were landed at Beauport, in the mud and low water, under one Major Walley. [11]
- The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
- Just when we were bored beyond endurance and when cigars were running low, a Fijian came to us and said: "That fellow, white fellow, all a-same a-you, long a-shore. [11]
- The doors, too, were arched and low, some with oaken portals and quaint benches, where the former inhabitants had sat on summer evenings. [12]
- At last she went up to the doorway, which was too low for her tall figure. [10]
- About the third week in March there was a change; a low wandering delirium came on; and in it she begged constantly for food and even for stimulants. [14]
- At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
- We made our way very slowly; and it was ten o'clock before we reached what appeared to be the summit, a ridge deeply covered with moss, low balsams, and blueberry-bushes. [4]
- His voice, which was usually low and full of melody, could be something terrible when it rose in denunciation of sin. [4]
- Now her hand was upon the bellows, and the low, white fire seethed hungrily up, and set its teeth upon the iron she held; now it turned the iron about upon the anvil, and the sparks showered about her very softly and strangely. [11]
- In one's ears was the low, continuous din of the rapids, with the music of a neighbouring waterfall. [11]
- Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning. [11]
- The May night was sultry, and the air in the low room had been hot and oppressive. [10]
- Brought low, it was still alert above the wreckage. [11]
- The time Hildebrand was so low with the pneumonia Emmeline and me were all, alone with him most of the time and we never took a minute's sleep for as much as two days, and nights. [5]
- The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
- Here the land was rugged and bold, while farther on it became gentle and spacious, and was flecked or striped with farms on which low, white houses with dormer-windows and big stoops flashed to the passer-by the message of the pioneer, "It is mine. [11]
- Occasionally the order was passed in a low voice down the line: "Close up--close up! [5]
- This time it was not Quijada, but the Duke of Alba, who offered him the support of his mailed arm, and, leaning on it, he ascended the low stage. [10]
- True, the execution was not nearly so good as at the rehearsal, for Maria sang in a low and somewhat muffled voice, while, spite of Wilhelm's vehement beating of time, the warmth and verve of the day before would not return. [10]
- The water treatment was new, now, and Tom's low condition was a windfall to her. [5]
- The dining room was long, low and narrow, and a narrow table extended its whole length. [5]
- While Don Luis was helping Barbara into the chair, she asked in a low tone what she was to think of this act of violence, and where she was being taken. [10]
- Round her throat was fastened a necklace like a collar, made of pearls and costly stones, and hanging low down on her well-formed bosom. [10]
- But down-stream work was different; a boat was too nearly helpless, with a stiff current pushing behind her; so it was not customary to run down-stream at night in low water. [5]
- Liverpool, where he was compelled to pass most of his time, had few attractions for him, and his low spirits did not permit him to avail himself of such social advantages as were offered. [4]
- Its curved portico was capped by a wrought-iron railing, its long windows were touched with purple, and its low garret--set like a deckhouse on the wide roof--suggested hidden secrets of the past. [9]
- Inside it was warm and bright and home-like; outside it was twenty degrees below zero, and like some vast tomb where life itself was congealed, and only the white stars, low, twinkling, and quizzical, lived-a life of sharp corrosion, not of fire. [11]
- A current of warm air, redolent of beer and food, met the travellers as they entered the large, low room, dimly lighted by the tiny windows, scarcely more than loop-holes, pierced in two sides. [10]
- Just then the warder rapped; Paula rose thoughtfully, and exclaimed in a low voice: "I have something to send to Orion that I dare not entrust to a stranger: but now, now I have you, my Mary, and you shall take it to him. [10]
- The young culprit wanted to slip past his teacher with a low "good night," but the latter called him, and pointing to the picture, smilingly asked: "Did you paint this? [10]
- A white shell walk divided the garden and ended at the door of a low outbuilding, from the chimney of which blue smoke curled upward in the evening air. [9]
- First a long wain covered in by a tilt so high I trove that meseemed many a town gate might be over low to let it pass; and it was drawn by four right small little horses, with dark matted coats and bright, wilful eyes. [10]
- Sometimes, in low voices, we talked of our future; but often, when the wind blew and the deck rocked and the sun flashed upon the waters, a silence would fall between us that needed no word to interpret. [9]
- Yet there the voices sounded, one sharp and peevish with anger, the other low and rough. [11]
- Said he--and his voice was low and impressive: "This is no ordinary case. [5]
- The only lights visible were in the low houses lining the banks of the river. [11]
- Salisbury was formerly very unhealthy, on account of the low, swampy nature of its grounds. [6]
- The boats were very uncertain in low water in these primitive times. [5]
- The cavaliers, bowing very low, suddenly stepped back from the fair dames, and the ladies curtsied to the floor. [10]
- It was a very dark miserable place, very low and very damp: the walls disfigured by a thousand rents and blotches. [12]
- Gradually, however, as Venters and Bess knelt low, holding the dogs, the beavers emerged to swim with logs and gnaw at cottonwoods and pat mud walls with their paddle-like tails, and, glossy and shiny in the sun, to go on with their strange, persistent industry. [13]
- Beside him sat Uvarov, who with rapid gesticulations was giving him some information, speaking in low tones as they all did. [2]
- She was growing used to celebrity, and could already sit calm and seemingly unconscious, under the fire of fifty lorgnettes in a theatre, or even overhear the low voice "That's she! [5]
- And it made us hush down, too, and talk low, like people at a funeral. [5]
- You will honour us by accepting a tardy justice--without a price," he added, in a low tone. [11]
- As we looked upon it that day, John Paul and I, and it lay low against the bright water with its bare oaks and chestnuts against the dark pines, 'twas perhaps as well that the future was sealed to us. [9]
- Presently they came up with them, and found them seated on a bench, looking off upon Brigantine Island, a low sand dune with some houses and a few trees against the sky, the most pleasing object in view. [4]
- He went close up to Paula, told her in a low voice that Hiram was safe, and implored her, as she hoped to be forgiven for her own sins, to grant him a few minutes. [10]
- As he advanced up the mid-aisle the interest was so intense that the low murmur of conversation in the great assemblage died out and was succeeded by a profound hush, a breathless stillness, through which his footfalls pulsed with a dull and distant sound. [5]
- So we set up a long time, and smoked and talked in a low voice, and felt pretty dull and down-hearted. [5]
- Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
- He nodded, as understanding her, and said in a low voice: "Katharina has been here? [10]
- Then we were under it, for the river was low, and the dingy-uniformed officer was bowing over our passports beneath the awning. [9]
- He came in under guard, but he bore himself quietly enough and made a low bow to the governor. [11]
- It is an unanswerable argument to this effect that no candidate for any office whatever, high or low, has ventured to seek votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union. [7]
- With throbbing heart, unable to utter a single word, Ulrich opened the door of the studio, bowing low before the monarch, who without vouchsafing him a single glance, walked solemnly to the painting. [10]
- From two directions two long files of infantry came plowing through the pack and press in silence; there was a low, crisp order and the crowd vanished, the square save the sidewalks was empty, the private mourner was gone. [5]
- The young artist turned pale and said with bowed head, and in low voice as he turned to go: "Right is always on the side of the strongest. [10]
- The gas was turned low, but under the chandelier was the figure of a young man struggling with an overcoat. [9]
- At length we turned into the avenue through the forest, lined by wild orange trees, came in sight of the low, belvedered plantation house, and drew rein at the foot of the steps. [9]
- So Balum he tuck en give de ten cents to de po', en laid low to see what wuz gwyne to come of it. [5]
- This was particularly true of Joshua, whose low, turned-down collar revealed a porous, brick-red, and extremely virile neck, and whose clothes were creased at the knees and across the back. [9]
- Many horses have trotted their mile under 2.30; none that I remember in public as low down as 2.20. [6]
- His lips were tremulous as he said, in a low tone, "Sit down by me, Myrtle. [6]
- Alexander held his trembling hand, and when the physician, a stout man of middle age, took the artist's place and bade him retire, Caracalla, in a low voice, desired him to remain. [10]
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