lower
verb (used with object)
to cause to descend; let or put down.
Example Sentences
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Hands clasped behind bent back, and with head thrust loweringly forward from between his huge shoulders he paced slowly down the trail for some hundred yards.
From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall
I was the next upon whom the eye of the police-sergeant loweringly fell.
From Faces and Places by Sir Henry W. (Henry William) Lucy
At the farthest scope of his chain he flung himself down on the slanting floor and crouched there with dull-glowing eyes bent loweringly upon his friends.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
He took it, standing at the littered bar, and looked loweringly at a man who stood where Riderhood had stood that early morning.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The man of sentiment, with the election in his hand, sat looking loweringly about him.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
