lowe
verb (used without object)
variant of low.
lowe
American
[loh]
/ loʊ /
verb (used without object)
British Dialect.
lowed,
lowing
Löwe
British
/ ˈløːvə /
noun
Example Sentences
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Now not too talle, nor yet too lowe; e’re be ye passinge faire.
From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline
"Penelophon, O King!" quoth she;70 With that she made a lowe courtsey; A trim one as I weene.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
Hit com and creep to me as lowe, Right as hit badde me y-knowe, Hild doun his heed and joyned his eres, And leyde al smothe doun his heres.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Dash we some water-drops on muchel lowe, Fire we with outcries storm of rage so rare That shall be strange to mortal memory.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
Wel cowde he dresse his takel yemanly; His arwes drowpede nought with fetheres lowe.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
Katy Löwe runs one of them from Halberstadt, a town that lies at the northern foothills of Saxony-Anhalt's Harz Mountains, 120 miles west of Berlin.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Huddersfield, who got four points from their last two matches, will be without Pet Shop Boy Chris Löwe and Mathias Jørgensen while Wolves have only lost Jonny, to invoke Hawkwind.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2018
Chris Löwe and Williams then scored, too, before Ali al-Habsi saved from Hefele.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2017
Among animal names adopted the favourites were Adler, eagle, Hirsch, hart, Löwe, lion, and Wolf, each of which is used with symbolic significance in the Old Testament.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
You must help us, sir," exclaimed Löwe, starting up again—"you must, indeed, or I shall go mad.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
“People see me on the court and they’re like,” he said, then lowed his voice to a whisper, “’Oh, my God!
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The SCA later lowed its demand to $550m, but the owners and insurers reportedly offered to pay $150m.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
They fed us lentils cooked in onion and garlic and thin milk from the water buffalo that lowed outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
Charlie’s mother fol- lowed his voice to the kitchen, where she let him know that she and Charlie were home playing cards.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 22, 2014
During assembly it melted and lowed weakly into the audience.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
You can hear a gentle lowing of cows.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
There were clear high points: The sawing, lowing horns and climbing strings toward the second movement’s conclusion were stunningly attractive opposites.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2022
The American landscape, however, was no longer made up of trees and cows lowing plangently at dusk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing, a chant that sounds like no, no.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
Bessie shivered, then made a contented, lowing sound.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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