low ground
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of low ground
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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The land sits on low ground and would need fill for any redesign, to get it above the Potomac River flood plain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
Tesla cars have very low ground clearance - or the distance between the lowest point of the car's undercarriage and the ground.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
Topographically, New Orleans is often likened to a bowl, but it’s more like a waffle, with pockets of low ground that fill up with just a few inches of rain.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2019
“And the short story is that the high ground is near the river and the low ground is old swamps and old marshes.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
It lay at the outskirts of the town, on low ground, like a rubbish dump, and as I walked up and down the gravel paths, I could smell the stagnant salt marshes in the distance.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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