lowery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lowery
Example Sentences
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Then it was a dark, lowery, and rainy day in the latter part of November.
From The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play by Edward A. Rand
It was a lowery evening as the trio of young folk set forth.
From The Corner House Girls at School by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
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 Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
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 Azel Stevens Roe
They were willing to show their liberal intent by binding themselves to run their trains only in rainy or "lowery" weather, or when the ground was damp.
From The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day
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