lowery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lowery
Example Sentences
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It was at the close of a lowery day; the shadows of night were deepened by a dark canopy of clouds which hung over the barrens.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Roe, Azel Stevens
The clouds became lowery, and from them, black and ominous, as they soon appeared, lightning flashed, thunder rolled, and a little rain fell.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
The sky was lowery, and it was afternoon when we commenced to plant.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas
In general the mornings are apt to be lowery, with fogs hanging low until, say, 9 o’clock, so that one cannot predict weather for the day.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
It was a lowery morning, and Bill proposed that we go together and look after a line of traps on Salt Run, and then put in the balance of the day still-hunting deer.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Woodcock, Eldred Nathaniel
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