lower
verb (used with object)
to cause to descend; let or put down.
Example Sentences
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He paused and looked loweringly at the interrupter under his shaggy brows, pulling his under lip into his mouth in a moment of grim resolve.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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
Sol shut the door, drew up an inverted tub, seated himself upon it, and looked about, loweringly.
From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser
Leaning on his stick, he looked loweringly back at Ashley, who talked to Drusilla without noticing him further.
From The Street Called Straight by Orson Lowell
