lowe
verb (used without object)
variant of low.
lowe
American
[loh]
/ loʊ /
verb (used without object)
British Dialect.
lowed,
lowing
Löwe
British
/ ˈløːvə /
noun
Example Sentences
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Littell Johnn let it lye full styll, And went to hys maysteer full lowe; ‘What tydynges, Johnn?’ sayde Robyn; ‘Sir, the knyght is true inowe.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
Before him came a dwarffe full lowe, That waited on his knee; And at his backe five heads he bare,80 All wan and pale of blee.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
Now not too talle, nor yet too lowe; e’re be ye passinge faire.
From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Pauline Lester
A brooch she baar up-on hir lowe coler, As brood as is the bos of a bocler.
From Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow
And walles of townes were then but lowe as appeared by the walls of Rome, whiche were suche that Remus easelye leaped over them.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
Katy Löwe runs one of them from Halberstadt, a town that lies at the northern foothills of Saxony-Anhalt's Harz Mountains, 120 miles west of Berlin.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Huddersfield, who got four points from their last two matches, will be without Pet Shop Boy Chris Löwe and Mathias Jørgensen while Wolves have only lost Jonny, to invoke Hawkwind.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2018
Chris Löwe and Williams then scored, too, before Ali al-Habsi saved from Hefele.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
But Löwe was not so easily gotten rid of.
From Beethoven by George Alexander Fischer
Our visitors arrived punctually, the third gentleman being, as we had supposed, Mr. Solomon Löwe.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
“People see me on the court and they’re like,” he said, then lowed his voice to a whisper, “’Oh, my God!
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The SCA later lowed its demand to $550m, but the owners and insurers reportedly offered to pay $150m.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
They fed us lentils cooked in onion and garlic and thin milk from the water buffalo that lowed outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
Charlie’s mother fol- lowed his voice to the kitchen, where she let him know that she and Charlie were home playing cards.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 22, 2014
She started walking from room to room, opening drawers and closet doors, and I fob lowed her.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
You can hear a gentle lowing of cows.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
From its opening lonely trumpet, it gathers and gains; a lowing cello calls, and the orchestra responds.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2022
Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing, a chant that sounds like no, no.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
“Neither the screaming wild-cat nor the howling wolf are longer heard, but instead the crowing cock, the bleating lamb, and lowing kine.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
Between the puny pops of Roman candles and the hisses of launching rockets, we could hear the vachettes bitterly lowing from within their nearby trailer.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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