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• Despite their lowly status, all city pigeons come from domestic pigeons, which were once popular as both pets and as messengers.From the entry city pigeon
• Doubtless it would include filthy rusalki and bagiennik, and lowly peasant magic.2021, P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn. From the entry bagiennik
• Yesterday’s lowly charwomen mopped floors, as do today’s cleaning ladies, janitors and minimum-wagers at McDonald’s.2021 December 7, Michael Arndt, “Celebrating the transcendental joy of household chores — yes, even mopping”, in Naples Daily News, volume…. From the entry minimum-wager
• Before the disc jockey, stations were compelled to acquire a flunky: the lowly pancake turner.2009, Mark Coleman, Playback. From the entry pancake turner
• The swabber, perhaps the lowliest position on the ship, was responsible for cleaning the decks.2005, Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, page 35. From the entry liar
• I'm just the deadheader of roses and pansies—a very lowly assistant gardener.2002, Miss Read, Gossip from Thrush Green, →ISBN. From the entry deadheader
• I would like to add not to forget the lowly Xbreds.1995 February 1, ujs...@cc.memphis.edu, “What breed to get?”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), retrieved 20 May 2022. From the entry xbred
• Love has a thousand voices, yet are they not lowly or despised.”1900 May, Ellen A. Smith, “The Price of an Inspiration”, in The Argosy, volume LXXI, London, →OCLC, page 67. From the entry kartoffel
• The lowliest of employees, piece workers were paid only for each bird or mammal they stuffed, or each fossil they prepared.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 245. From the entry pieceworker
• Asian coolies were regarded as lowly laborers.2008, Lisa Yun, The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba, Temple University Press, page xix. From the entry coolie
• Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry banana
• You're no flexecuive, after all, just a lowly permalance.2001 December 17, Hubert B. Herring, “Roll Over, Shakespeare, the Future Is Here”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry prebuttal
• Unlikely as it may seem, this places the lowly Pharaoh's chicken with man and higher primates as users of eating utensils.1974, Philip S. Callahan, The Magnificent Birds of Prey, page 22. From the entry pharaoh's chicken
• To think that such a lowly kern Should dare to dream to be allied By wedlock to a royal bairn!1903, James Duff Law, Here and There in Two Hemispheres, page 105. From the entry kern
• I trust that you are lowly and serviceable?”1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Works of A. Conan Doyle: The white company, page 167. From the entry jambe
• Both pubbies and cathies looked on with stunned faces as the lowly “egg-boy” picked a fight with one of the cool kids.2016, Penn Brooks, Diary of a Private School Kid. From the entry pubbie
• Ah Lian are not simply lowly educated, they also have supposedly 'pre-modern' or sua-ku (hill tortoise, metaphor for 'backward') modes of behaviour.2003, Beng Huat Chua, Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry suaku
• If we are all—from the lowliest microorganism to the largest whale—a part of Gaia, then we are all potentially important to its well-being.1980 July, James E. Lovelock, “Living Planet Earth”, in Omni, volume 2, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 124, column 3. From the entry Gaia
• He chose, on the contrary, to be installed as World-Ruler and Cosmocrat at the completion of a mission of self-humbling and lowly obedience unto death.1971, John G. Gibbs, Creation and Redemption: A Study in Pauline Theology, Page 83. From the entry cosmocrat
• Grants, baby,” she told him, bucking herself up as she went, peeling the corners back so there could be no mistaking them for lowly fives.1961, Ross Russell, “If You Can’t Get Five—”, in The Sound, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, part 2, page 181. From the entry U. S. Grant
• A wandering crone, lowly form of an immortal serving her conqueror and her gay betrayer, their common cuckquean, a messenger from the secret morning.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 14. From the entry cuckquean
• Prayer was in his eyes an angel's ladder to the heavens, and the shining path by which all blessings descend to the lowly soul.1901 July, Cunningham Geikie, “Lessons From the Past for the Pulpit of To-day: Chrysostom”, in The Homiletic Review, volume 42, number 1…. From the entry angel's ladder
• Consider the story of one lowly tax bureau in the district of Huanggu, one of the ten districts in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province in northeast China.2022, Wei Cui, The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40. From the entry Huanggu
• One last consolation, however, was left to the casual poor and naturally enough they tended to clutch at it: their women could be more demeaned, more lowly, than they.1999, Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, page 79. From the entry demeaned
• I recall the scent of some kind of toilet powder - I believe she stole it from her mother's Spanish maid - a sweetish, lowly, musky perfume.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC. From the entry biscuity
• During the acute national potato shortage, the lowly spud was missed so much that it began to rank with truffles and goose livers as a delicacy.1945, The World Book Encyclopedia: Annual Supplement. From the entry spudless
• All our foolish little paper-knives and pincushions have their origin in the gold and myrrh and frankincense that the three wise men brought to that lowly stable in Bethlehem.1923, Compton Mackenzie, “The First Sermon”, in The Parson’s Progress, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, page 24. From the entry pincushion
• No one seemed to care that a lowly trooper was beaking off during an officers' meeting: in fact, clearly everyone had been listening to him, not the other way around.2019, R.W. Laidlaw, Oasis, page 234. From the entry beak off
• Watch his impudent boldness with great men – you would not think that Essex was the premier Earl and that McGunn was the lowly kern from the boglands of Ireland.2010, Rory Clements, Revenger. From the entry kern

Meaning of lowly

1. adjective Not high; not elevated in place; low.
2. adjective Low in rank or social importance.
3. adjective Not lofty or sublime; humble.

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How do you use lowly in a sentence?

Lowly is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “Despite their lowly status, all city pigeons come from domestic pigeons, which were once popular as both pets and as messengers.”

What is a short sentence with lowly?

“Asian coolies were regarded as lowly laborers.”

What does lowly mean?

Lowly means not high; not elevated in place; low.