lowery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lowery
Example Sentences
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The morning was lowery, with driving showers running through it from time to time, and an atmosphere penetratingly damp and cheerless.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
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 morning of the 30th was lowery, but the clouds dispersed as the day advanced.
From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.
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
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
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