How to Use low-lying in a Sentence
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The images show how the lake bloomed across the low-lying salt flat on Aug. 30.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
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The area that flooded is a low-lying flood plain for the Po River.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
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Rivers overwhelmed their banks and flooded low-lying parts of the city.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
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The area that flooded is a low-lying floodplain for the Po River.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 27 May 2023
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Now, the new question is, what’s driving the decrease in low-lying clouds?
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Over the course of the summer, the waters converged in the low-lying areas around the Indus River.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
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Set in its own low-lying building among the mangroves and not far from the lobby, the vibe skews more formal.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2025
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Beadle left his home Wednesday in a low-lying area about 10 miles outside town as the rain picked up.
—Jack Brook and Sara Cline, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
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Strong winds will occur at times, plus a chance of flooding in low-lying areas.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
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The rise will accelerate the drowning of low-lying lands, per Hein.
—Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 12 July 2024
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The low-lying southbound lanes are closed during the highest tides of the year, when waves carry rocks and sand onto the pavement.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
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Be sure to also scour leafy duff, moss, tree roots, and other low-lying areas.
—Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
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Brownsville also mirrors the early days of the Space Coast in some ways: low-lying, close to the beach, swaths of undeveloped land.
—Emre Kelly, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023
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Rivers, streams and low-lying areas could see flooding.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
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Before the Lakewood rink can open, Nelson said the ground must be frozen in a low-lying area before it is flooded.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
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Of note, the low-lying area in and around Miami is also projected to be at the greatest flash flood risk.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
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Runoff may cause flooding in rivers, creeks and other low-lying areas.
—Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
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There’s a reason this long string of low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean is at the top of many travelers' lists.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2024
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Some areas of the city saw a month's worth of rainfall in only two hours, with flash floods being seen in poor drainage and low-lying areas.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
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Forty-four rooms and suites, stuffed into a few low-lying buildings, come with terraces and patios.
—Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
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Louisville's East End has a slight risk for damaging winds and flooding in low-lying areas.
—Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2024
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East Boston is considered a flood zone due to the low-lying shoreline next to the neighborhood.
—Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
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People will also draw back from low-lying and flood-prone coastal areas, such as the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh and parts of coastal Florida.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
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Initially, the Coastal Commission required a 150-acre reef to be built of low-lying boulders in the ocean north of the power plant near San Clemente.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
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Cooling sea breezes don’t reach these low-lying plains, which also receive less rainfall than the east.
—Gavin Butler Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
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In some cases, streams spilled over roads and water rose across low-lying roadways in a matter of minutes.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
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High tides and storm surf erode the bluffs and sometimes wash rocks and sand onto the low-lying traffic lanes between Manzano Drive and Island Way.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
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Plus, low-lying areas of the county will get a rare visitor this weekend: frost.
—Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
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The litter, also found in parts of Olmos Basin and along the low-lying River Basin, was left over from river flooding due to heavy rains last week.
—Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Apr. 2023
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If reaching a safe shelter is not possible, either crouch down in your car and cover your head, or leave your vehicle and seek refuge in a low-lying area like a ditch or ravine.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2025
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