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
• 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
• The computer models showed that a warmer climate would produce an increase in low-level wind shear on days when the air is more unstable.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
• Dozens of low-level actors have been arrested, but the cost of contracting out its meddling is so low that Russia just keeps finding recruits.
  — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024