How to Use low-level in a Sentence

low-level

adjective
  • In the 1920s, the city built a prison farm where low-level convicts were forced to grow crops and raise livestock.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Dear Amy: My live-in boyfriend is a low-level pot dealer.
    Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2023
  • The Prime Video film sees three improv actors hired by the police to help stage low-level stings.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
  • She was convicted of a string of low-level crimes: first, passing a bad check.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • Faber, just a sales rep for the Cowboys’ TV productions team at the time, could even feel the unease in his low-level role.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But across the board, women are more likely to stagnate in their careers and stay longer in low-level roles.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Those flashpoints are rare, but Ceuta has a low-level metronome of tragedy even during calmer times.
    James Montague Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Try low-level, warm-colored lights Check the Kelvin rating on your lightbulb box.
    Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
  • That would be a low-level felony, according to New York state law, punishable by up to four years in prison.
    Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • From the comments on Nexus, that low-level cost has put off a lot of players who are used to mods being entirely free.
    Jay Castello, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2024
  • In just the past week or so, the Russian air force has lost two Su-25 attack planes, and at least one pilot, in crashes during low-level flights to or from the war zone.
    David Axe, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • As a result, low-level efforts to keep Joanne and Noah from being together don’t amount to much.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Over time my wife and I developed low-level headaches and labored breathing.
    Sunset Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Since the revolution, Iran has faced low-level separatist unrest from Kurds in the country's northwest, the Baluch in the east and Arabs in the southwest.
    Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • What happened, in my very humble opinion, is that a low-level functionary came to News Corp’s rescue.
    Judith Regan, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Many children locked up in the detention center are assessed to be low-level risk to re-offend.
    María Ramos Pacheco, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Lou’s father runs the town, sort of like a low-level mobster in a mob that only employs flunkies and toadies with nothing better to do.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • All of the lighting is low-level, solar-powered or from renewable sources.
    Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The rising death toll comes as the city and the state have turned away from the aggressive law enforcement of low-level street drug activity that was common in the late 1990s.
    Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • He’s spent time in jail for buying crack, among other low-level offenses.
    Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The agreements, widely used to avoid clogging courts and jails with low-level offenders, have legal teeth.
    Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
  • McNairy and Harrington are Cliff and Ricky, two low-level hustlers who split ways after the gory setback.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • The increasingly dubious Raspe (armed with handy knowledge of how to dodge the law) turned to money-making schemes and low-level crimes.
    Rosemary Counter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
  • At some point, the cartels began paying these low-level contractors in drugs.
    Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Card had been an instructor at an Army hand grenade training range, where it is believed he was exposed to thousands of low-level blasts.
    CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The best of the documentary’s talking heads are the low-level employees who were not, to use Lowe’s words, ever allowed to party.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024
  • In the fine print, that piece of evidence turns out to be a single interview with a low-level official in one of the five countries where the charity worked—that’s it.
    Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Many children locked up in the detention center are assessed to be low-level risk to reoffend.
    Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • Since then there has been low-level fighting as the sides have occasionally exchanged fire across the border.
    Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Henley also spent six years managing low-level minor-league teams in the Dodgers' system, but the majority of his experience came as a scout.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024

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