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
  • This type of surgery is used for a low-grade tumor that has started to invade the wall of the bladder.
    Steffini Stalos, Health, 25 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Some people also have a low-grade fever, Blumberg said.
    Fernanda Galan, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • According to multiple reports, McNeil has a low-grade strain in his right oblique and will be shut down for the next 7 to 10 days.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • With Franco and Jackson leading the chaos, this could be an in-demand title for buyers looking for low-grade stoner laughs.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The latter is a low-grade inflammation that develops with age.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The marble-sized pellets are made after the relatively low-grade iron ore is mined, crushed and concentrated.
    Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025

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