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    Use "lowering" in a sentence

    lowering example sentences

    lowering


    1. I wait as she finishes her pull, briskly lowering the glass on her coaster


    2. He glowers at me before lowering his eyes to glare at his shoes, stretched out in front of him


    3. half closed against the brilliant sun in its lowering arc


    4. of the lid and the lowering


    5. and lowering loft hatches, leaving the things


    6. Those two words *very slowly’, in connection with the lowering of the legs will catch most of you out at first


    7. You want to reduce that abdomen don’t you ? Then do please remember that there is no hurry at all in this exercise, and the slow s-l-o-w lowering of the legs is precisely what strengthens, tones, exercises, and reduces those flabby abdominal muscles and helps to reduce fat in this area


    8. The back and shoulders are also strengthened by the slow motion lifting and lowering of the head and shoulders


    9. As though reading my mind, he grimaces at me before smiling ruefully and lowering his eyes to the plate he is holding


    10. slowly move it away from you, without raising or lowering it,

    11. Duncan felt a small quiver beneath his seat as the pilot began turning a lever and he rightly guessed that the pilot was lowering the landing gear


    12. In fact,” he said, lowering his voice conspiratorially,


    13. information,” Bram replied, also lowering his voice, “It concerns the


    14. The lowering sky at last forced people into their cabins and the public places of the ship's interior


    15. " she answered lowering herself back to the second step, he swung around and sat next to her


    16. She looked like she was going to say something, then thought better of it, making a face like it would be lowering herself to argue with one such as Luray


    17. "Why in the world would I want a key to a book store?" Lowering her head to the steering wheel, to allow a few more tears to pass from her cheeks, she thought, that isn't even to what he was referring


    18. Lowering her head, she closed her eyes and counted One – Two – Three – then opened them


    19. "What is it?" She questioned lowering herself to his feet, and looking up into his troubled face


    20. " He grinned, lowering her slowly down his chest, to the wooden floor

    21. Softly lowering her to the bed, he bent and softly kissed her on the forehead before turning to leave, but Mike wasn't about to let it end the simply


    22. Lowering the letter, she looked up at Jim and said, "They loved each other so — it wasn't fair


    23. " she demanded to know, why he wasn't lowering the belt


    24. Before lowering her head to the table and crying her eyes out


    25. ‘Very well,’ he said at last, lowering himself into a


    26. The lowering of profit in the town forces out stock to the


    27. For a moment he would smile, then the silky soft skin of his face would grow flaccid, his eyes lowering in despair


    28. The boy grew somber, lowering his head to the stone


    29. I think what really worries you is our large catch lowering prices in your market


    30. Mr Locke, Mr Lawe, and Mr Montesquieu, as well as many other writers, seem to have imagined that the increase of the quantity of gold and silver, in consequence of the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, was the real cause of the lowering of the rate of interest through the greater part of Europe

    31. This supposition will not, I believe, be found anywhere agreeable to the truth ; but it is the most favourable to the opinion which we are going to examine; and, even upon this supposition, it is utterly impossible that the lowering of the value of silver could have the smallest tendency to lower the rate of interest


    32. They loaded the public revenue with a very considerable expense: they imposed a very heavy tax upon the whole body of the people ; but they did not, in any sensible degree, increase the real value of their own commodity; and by lowering somewhat the real value of silver, they discouraged, in some degree, the general industry of the country, and, instead of advancing, retarded more or less the improvement of their own lands, which necessarily depend upon the general industry of the country


    33. On the contrary, as the rise in the real value of silver, in consequence of lowering the money price of corn, lowers somewhat the money price of all other commodities, it gives the industry of the country where it takes place some advantage in all foreign markets and thereby tends to encourage and increase that industry


    34. That rise in the real value of silver, therefore, which is the effect of lowering the average money price of corn, tends to enlarge the greatest and most important market for corn, and thereby to encourage, instead of discouraging its growth


    35. Recent studies show that ginger might also have a role in lowering LDL cholesterol because the spice can help reduce the amount of cholesterol that is absorbed


    36. Instead he moved Kevin’s limbs into a more dignified position, legs together and arms by his sides, and then returned to the rope that Fletcher was lowering back down


    37. This policy, therefore, discourages agriculture in two different ways; first, by sinking the real value of its produce, and thereby lowering the rate of its profits; and, secondly, by raising the rate of profit in all other employments


    38. Lowering a slightly shaking hand to the door knob, she turned it quietly as she lifted her gun with her other hand


    39. ” I retorted in a cold voice, lowering my head


    40. ” Captain Melstone took the proffered bottle from the Sergeant and took a deep drink from it which it looked like he enjoyed while this was going on the rest of the lads round the well had taken their puttees off and were lowering bottles down into it and filling them as fast as they could

    41. Hans turned a moment later, lowering the radio


    42. It responded by lowering its power


    43. When the diminution of revenue is the effect of the diminutiun of consumption, there can be but one remedy, and that is the lowering of the tax


    44. The temptation to smuggle can be diminished only by the lowering of the tax ; and the difficulty of smuggling can be increased only by establishing that system of administration which is most proper for preventing it


    45. I tire of seeing newscasts depicting Hispanic high school students in American schools lowering the American flag and replacing it with the flag of Mexico


    46. Adem opened both eyes, lowering his hands to rest them on the arms of the chair


    47. If they continue doing the superb jobs they"ve been doing these past two years in the areas of lowering taxes, balancing budgets, controlling regulations, and creating jobs, Obama may just have a tough time of it getting re-elected in 2012


    48. One unpredictable effect, the dramatic lowering of the suicide rate: a sixty per cent decline from peacetime levels


    49. He caught his breath and stepped back, lowering his hand


    50. Leaping onboard the longboat, Larkey carefully grabbed the rope and meted out a few feet of line per second, cautiously lowering the boat into the stormy seas below











































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    Synonyms for "lowering"

    letting down lowering heavy sullen threatening

    "lowering" definitions

    the act of causing to become less


    the act of causing something to move to a lower level


    darkened by clouds