LOWER in a Sentence

Learn LOWER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
269 example sentences for LOWER, such as:
1. It was printed in lower case.
2. Sissy resumed in a lower voice.
3. He belongs to the lower middle class.
4. Examinations also lower the standards of teaching.
5. Make sure you keep within the new lower speed limit.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LOWER
lower
 v.  cause to drop or sink
 v.  look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked as though his death struggle had been a grievous one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  He believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on Animal Farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
3  Sissy resumed in a lower voice.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
4  She went up to the house, keeping within the shrubbery, and went round it, peeping between the leaves at the lower windows.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
5  The sun was four hours lower than when Sissy and Rachael had first sat down upon the grass, before a means of enabling two men to descend securely was rigged with poles and ropes.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
6  When all was ready, this man, still taking his last hurried charges from his comrades and the surgeon after the windlass had begun to lower him, disappeared into the pit.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
7  Two or three servants of a superior order stood behind their master upon the dais; the rest occupied the lower part of the hall.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Beside each person of rank was placed a goblet of silver; the lower board was accommodated with large drinking horns.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Cedric himself coldly nodded in answer to the Jew's repeated salutations, and signed to him to take place at the lower end of the table, where, however, no one offered to make room for him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  The lower and interior space was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such of the lesser gentry, as, from modesty, poverty, or dubious title, durst not assume any higher place.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  On the lower step of this throne the champion was made to kneel down.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  De Bracy winded his horn three times, and the archers and cross-bow men, who had manned the wall upon seeing their approach, hastened to lower the drawbridge, and admit them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  The poor Jew had been hastily thrust into a dungeon-vault of the castle, the floor of which was deep beneath the level of the ground, and very damp, being lower than even the moat itself.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  The remaining and lower part of the hall was filled with guards, holding partisans, and with other attendants whom curiosity had drawn thither, to see at once a Grand Master and a Jewish sorceress.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  The courses have been geared down to lower ability of students in these special classes.
2  Education now offers the lower classes access to job opportunities.
3  Detach the lower part of the form from this letter and return it to the above address.
4  Examinations also lower the standards of teaching.
5  I'll need to lop off the lower branches of the tree.
6  A sharp tap on the knee usually causes an involuntary movement of the lower leg.
7  If you wish to lower yourselfin a person's favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
8  We were pipped at the post by a firm whose price was lower.
9  Make sure you keep within the new lower speed limit.
10  The rich will not benefit from the proposed changes to the tax system to the same extent as the lower paid.
11  Exercise will not only lower blood pressure but possibly protect against heart attacks.
12  Meditation tends to lower or normalize blood pressure.
13  It was printed in lower case.
14  He belongs to the lower middle class.
15  Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous.