low-lying

How To Use low-lying In A Sentence

• Sea level rises will follow, catastrophically for many low-lying countries.
• Tuvalu is one of dozens of low-lying islands threatened with rising sea levels.
• Officials were watching flood levels on the Rhine river in the city of Koblenz on Monday that were expected to peak at 25 feet, 4 inches 7 meters, 70 centimeters, and some low-lying parts of the city were under water. Man Feared Dead As Melting Snow Floods Germany
• Some of these low-lying areas, with waterlogged deposits blanketed by alluvium, have provided good evidence for Roman farming.
• Four more people drowned in eastern India on Wednesday and an overflowing river threatened to inundate low-lying areas around Patna, the populous capital city of Bihar state, relief officials said yesterday.
• Where Lowell lived, this consisted of low-lying conifers, alders, and gorsy thicket.
• Seek shelter in low-lying areas, such as dense stands of small trees.
• In his most remarkable feat, he constructs a low-lying town in a dry lakebed only to drown it for a spectacular inundation.
• More parts of the city, which has already seen its dyke breached and low-lying areas swamped, have been flooded.
• Still, the water Tuesday was high enough to flood the city's landmark St. Mark's Square and other low-lying areas.