[
US
/ˈɫoʊɝɪŋ/
]
NOUN
- the act of causing something to move to a lower level
- the act of causing to become less
ADJECTIVE
-
darkened by clouds
a heavy sky
How To Use lowering In A Sentence
- At this point we must trace our way back, pass through the flowering shrubs and plunge into the shade of a little wood. The Education of a Gardener
- Tamarind, besides being a good source of B vitamins, calcium and potassium, is being studied as a possible cholesterol-lowering agent, and an extract from its seeds is made into eye drops to treat dry eye syndrome. Tart, Tasty Tamarind: From Candy to Cocktails
- We're on a misty riverbank, with lush, flowering trees and towering storybook castles in the background.
- As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
- "It is expected that commercial banks will respond by lowering their lending base rates, " he explained.
- The Archaic period (c. early 6th century - 480 BC) saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas.
- Enjoy this jolly, spritzy, grapey, flowering currant and passion fruit-scented rosé well chilled. Times, Sunday Times
- However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
- You could see flowering shrubs but not reach them. Times, Sunday Times
- I've said before that I think the supply-siders who argue that lowering our marginal tax rates will raise revenue are full of bunk.