How to Use low-grade in a Sentence

low-grade

adjective

• The 40-year-old missed the start of the season with a low-grade teres major strain.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• That, plus the choice of pants rather than a skirt is giving Seyfried a low-grade punk vibe.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2024
• High-grade cancer cells grow and spread more rapidly than low-grade ones.
  — Jenny McCoy, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
• The shots from that doorbell camera are low-grade grainy and the audio sounds stuffed with earwax.
  — Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
• If an infection and a low-grade fever couldn’t stop him, then Chris Claiborne and Rashard Cook had no chance.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
• The infection starts with symptoms like a runny nose, a low-grade fever and a tickly cough.
  — Sam Tupper, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
• Sensing her low-grade panic, my friends moved a few seats down at the bar, leaving me and Janine to get into it.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 14 Nov. 2024
• Black men are also more likely to die from low-grade prostate cancer than other races.
  — Taayoo Murray, Essence, 7 June 2024
• In fact, there are some companies out there that just want to make a quick buck off of people by selling low-grade products.
  — Carol Lee, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
• The kids started a game that soon turned into low-grade squabble, when, suddenly, an air-raid siren blared.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
• Boone said that an initial fluoroscope, a low-grade X-ray, came back clean.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
• And there is another cost advantage: The process can use cheap, low-grade iron ores that are widely available around the world.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2022
• But the show’s real source is the low-grade titillation of Fox’s hot-mess black series Empire.
  — Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2023
• Yet as fate would have it, Skye heads to her former high-school classmate and drug dealer Lewis’ (Lukas Gage) apartment on the eve of her tour to score some low-grade painkillers.
  — Abby Monteil, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
• However, the flu usually also comes with low-grade fevers and body aches.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Oct. 2023
• Common side effects include body aches and low-grade fever, the doctor noted.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024
• Symptoms can start like a common cold with fatigue, a low-grade fever, runny nose, sore throat or sneezing.
  — Keri Brenner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• For the past few years, civilian life in northern Norway has been under constant, low-grade attack.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• Only about 25% of people who get those vaccines tend to get more pronounced side effects like sore arm and a low-grade fever, Hudson said.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
• Whooping cough starts with symptoms that look a lot like a regular cold: a runny nose, sneezing, a low-grade fever and a tickly cough.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
• Two low-grade insults that wouldn’t raise an eyebrow on a middle-school playground but somehow have become the words of summer.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
• In low-grade digital video, a group of women huddled against the cold around a stove celebrate Women’s Day with a good-natured sing-off.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 May 2024
• There is instead a backdrop of low-grade chaos, funny in its Southern volatility.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
• In some cases, vomiting and low-grade fever may also occur.
  — Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024
• State of play: What began as a low-grade storm in the morning strengthened to a Category 5 monster by lunchtime, boasting sustained winds of 180mph.
  — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
• For example, a low-grade fever is a body temperature above normal but not above or just barely above the fever threshold.
  — Leah Groth, Health, 20 Sep. 2023
• During the first one to two weeks, the infected person may just have a runny or stuffed up nose, an occasional cough, and possibly a low-grade fever.
  — Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• Other symptoms include fatigue, coughing, swelling of the legs or feet, low-grade fever, shortness of breath and heart palpitations.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
• Other symptoms include fatigue, coughing, swelling of the legs or feet, low-grade fever, shortness of breath, and heart palpitations.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 May 2024
• Iran and Israel have traded missile and drone strikes, and Iranian proxies continue to wage low-grade war with Israel as the war in Gaza continues.
  — NPR, 20 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025