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
• 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
• 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
• However, the flu usually also comes with low-grade fevers and body aches.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Early symptoms often resemble a common cold -- runny nose, cough and low-grade fever -- and typically last for one to two weeks.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
• Early symptoms often resemble a common cold -- runny nose, cough and low-grade fever -- and typically last for one to two weeks.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 May 2024
• Yet underlying all that gratitude was a low-grade anxiety: Would audiences and critics like the film, and would that be enough for a buyer to scoop it up and plan to distribute it?
  — Nicole Sperling Joel Barhamand, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Whether they were intended to cause a significant blast effect and hurt people or if they were designed to create smoke, fire and a low-grade blast for a diversion is unclear.
  — Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 17 July 2024
• Using over-the-counter anti-itch creams should not harm the skin because these products incorporate low-grade ingredients.
  — Danielle Zoellner, Verywell Health, 5 Oct. 2023
• Common side effects are similar to previous shots and include low-grade fever, soreness at the injection site, joint pain and fatigue.
  — Omer Awan, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
• In 2000 a team of scientists (Franceschi et al.) coined the term inflammaging which refers to chronic, low-grade inflammation that develops with advanced age.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Posting cute little videos of dogs in need—the internet’s bread and butter, really—can draw some low-grade cyberbullying.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024