How to Use lowly in a Sentence

lowly

1 of 2 adjective

• He was working as a lowly clerk.
• He resented his lowly status.
• On the more high-minded Douban, the rating was a lowly 5.8.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
• Of course, even the lowly sound machine has gone high-tech these days.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 24 Jan. 2023
• The Chiefs travel to Denver for a matchup against the lowly Broncos (3-9).
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• After that, the Pac-12 slate begins in earnest at lowly Cal on Dec. 29.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
• The Mets have been shut out six times, the same number of times as the lowly Kansas City Royals.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 7 May 2023
• The likelihood of a loss to the lowly Beavers is south of 50 percent but well north of zero.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• As such, the Orioles should have at least $21.5 million more to spend than the lowly Royals.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• There was plenty of blame to go around in the Angels’ 11-8 loss to the lowly Kansas City Royals.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• The Lakers are a lowly 11-16 and can’t seem to string together more than three wins at a time.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• The Sox now travel to Kansas City for a meeting with the lowly Royals.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• Six years ago, Shohei Ohtani shocked the baseball world by signing with the lowly Angels.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The Panthers had won three in a row and six of seven before falling to the lowly Flyers.
  — Aaron Bracy, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
• Turns out that the accuracy of the median dot for the Fed Funds rate is a lowly 37%.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
• Then the host gave her a lowly three-star review for cleanliness.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• The Sox are in the meat of their schedule with the exception of the lowly Cubs, who come to Fenway for a three-game set starting Friday.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2022
• The methods that propelled you from a lowly count to the ruler of many kingdoms may not serve you well as emperor.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• And with the lowly Bears up next, the Patriots were almost certain to win their third straight and get over .500 for the first time this season.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• That lowly figure makes the film the second biggest to be released in Korea this year.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2022
• The Cardinals’ final six games are all against the lowly Pirates.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2022
• God uses the broken and lowly to confound the strong and powerful.
  — Cameron Smith | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2022
• Read full article On Friday night, however, the Sox took care of the lowly A’s with a 7-3 win in the opener of a three-game set.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• Or if the Giants struggle against the lowly Diamondbacks and Cubs this week, would Zaidi wave the white flag and sell?
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2022
• All to the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates. Greene has nasty stuff, but his control issues can bite him.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• The Ravens got one good drive from backup quarterback Tyler Huntley last week to beat the lowly Broncos.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 9 Dec. 2022
• Toe to toe, on land, the hippo towers over its lowly opponent.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
• When Grainge was seventeen, a talent agent in Soho hired him as a sandwich guy, the lowliest gofer.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• But for the Warriors, every game has playoff implications — even against the lowly Hornets.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024

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lowly

2 of 2 adverb

• The Kenyan shilling has for the longest time been measuring lowly against the US dollar.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
• Live with a God who loves you so much He was born in a lowly stable and died on a wooden cross.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Savages and heathens, lowly and oppressed, hailed and welcomed it at the far end of the wide world.
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2021
• An excellent metric for gauging whether stocks around the globe are richly, lowly or reasonably priced is the ratio of price to cash flow.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
• That being said, there have been a few undrafted -- or lowly drafted -- players who have made an impact in Indy.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2023
• And higher funding costs haven’t been matched by earnings growth for more lowly rated borrowers.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
• Wiggins, 31, appeared in court in orange prison scrubs, flip-flops and handcuffs, speaking lowly and showing little emotion.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• The resulting takeover hopes always looked highly speculative, and any trace of them in Nokia’s lowly valued stock has already been swept away by the coronavirus selloff.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
• The freshman briefly earned Heisman buzz before losing two of the final five games with a narrow escape at lowly-Kansas effectively ending any shot of his dark horse bid.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 Dec. 2021
• But the series was, at least by Netflix’s notoriously secretive estimates, lowly rated, and the streaming service chose to axe the show in March.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 27 June 2019
• The players will receive $70 million to $75 million of that windfall in the form of a higher salary cap, but the structure exposes the strange economics of the playoffs, as well as the divergent interests of highly paid and lowly paid players.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Of course, not all such jobs are equal, and while there are many that are highly skilled and well-compensated, there are equally many that are lowly compensated and provide huge uncertainty to workers.
  — Pavel Krapivin, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• Car makers in general are lowly valued because investors assume their profits will disappear in the next downturn.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• This story's strongest parallel to the coronavirus pandemic: lowly paid essential workers are expected to stay on the job, serving customers to the bitter end.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
• Nothing embraces those dramatic changes like the butterfly, shifting from a lowly crawling caterpillar to the colorful winged pollinator that brings beauty and whimsy to the outdoors.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
• The company has performed as well as can reasonably be expected—selling aggressively into the U.S. light-truck boom even while preparing its cost structure for a downturn—but its shares are as lowly valued as ever.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• An intelligent, thoughtful man capable of reciting from memory long passages of scripture as well as Shakespeare, Hill never did anything as lowly as complain about being overlooked for the Hall.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021
• The Kenyan shilling has for the longest time been measuring lowly against the US dollar.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
• Live with a God who loves you so much He was born in a lowly stable and died on a wooden cross.
  — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Savages and heathens, lowly and oppressed, hailed and welcomed it at the far end of the wide world.
  — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2021
• An excellent metric for gauging whether stocks around the globe are richly, lowly or reasonably priced is the ratio of price to cash flow.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
• That being said, there have been a few undrafted -- or lowly drafted -- players who have made an impact in Indy.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2023
• And higher funding costs haven’t been matched by earnings growth for more lowly rated borrowers.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
• Wiggins, 31, appeared in court in orange prison scrubs, flip-flops and handcuffs, speaking lowly and showing little emotion.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• The resulting takeover hopes always looked highly speculative, and any trace of them in Nokia’s lowly valued stock has already been swept away by the coronavirus selloff.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
• The freshman briefly earned Heisman buzz before losing two of the final five games with a narrow escape at lowly-Kansas effectively ending any shot of his dark horse bid.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 6 Dec. 2021
• But the series was, at least by Netflix’s notoriously secretive estimates, lowly rated, and the streaming service chose to axe the show in March.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 27 June 2019
• The players will receive $70 million to $75 million of that windfall in the form of a higher salary cap, but the structure exposes the strange economics of the playoffs, as well as the divergent interests of highly paid and lowly paid players.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Of course, not all such jobs are equal, and while there are many that are highly skilled and well-compensated, there are equally many that are lowly compensated and provide huge uncertainty to workers.
  — Pavel Krapivin, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• Car makers in general are lowly valued because investors assume their profits will disappear in the next downturn.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018

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