[ US /ˈɫoʊɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. move something or somebody to a lower position
    take down the vase from the shelf
  2. set lower
    lower a rating
    lower expectations
  3. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
  4. make lower or quieter
    turn down the volume of a radio
  5. cause to drop or sink
    The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir
NOUN
  1. the lower of two berths
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How To Use lower In A Sentence

  • She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
  • Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
  • It was a homey room, though a little too flowery for me, with prints of cabbage-size roses on the slipcovers and curtains. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
  • I am thinking about taking one row of raspberries away, maybe exchange the other one as well for a newer kind with bigger berries in, so we can have a bit more room for flowers along the allotment border.
  • Other worries were language barriers and lower standards of quality in some countries. Times, Sunday Times
  • Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Drug linked to increased risk for older diabetics
  • For the wholehearted follower of Francis (`I am your breviary ! RIDDLE ME THIS
  • The poet has symbolized his lover with a flower.
  • Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
  • The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
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