The life-boats are lowered and every person is saved.
When the link is raised or lowered part way the valve makes a short stroke, and less steam is admitted to the cylinder than with a full stroke.
That is because the pressure has been loweredby the flow of water from the other faucets.
By moving this weight forward or backward the ship is raised or lowered at the bow or stern, and thus caused to glide up or down.
The submarine is driven by a screw propeller, and some submarines are lowered by means of a vertical screw.
For every nine hundred feet of elevation the mercury islowered about one inch.
The balloon can be lowered or raised by winding or unwinding the cable.
It may be raised by throwing out ballast or lowered by letting out gas, but further than this the aeronaut has no control over its movements.
She trembled with joy as the cañon walls lowered and fell apart, and she saw the blessed plains, the low green flats and the willows, and the white tents of the camp, safe in the sunshine.
He lowered the lid of the black mahogany secretary, placed a chair for Dorothy and opened a great ledger before her, bending down, with one hand on the back of the chair, the other turning the leaves of the ledger.
Galors lowered his head under his shield, made another desperate blind rush, and got to close quarters.
Prosper loweredhis head and shot at him as from a catapult.
She was very shy of him, and when he raised her up and kissed her forehead, suffered the caress withlowered eyes and a face all rosy.
He headed straight for the shop, well knowing his privileges as a sacred beast, lowered his head, and puffed heavily along the line of baskets ere making his choice.
Is he by chance--he lowered his voice--'one of us?
She caught herself singing--and loweredit to humming.
She lowered her eyes--she had thought he would not observe the slight traces of the tears she had carefully wiped away.
And again she flushed and lowered her eyes and compressed her lips.
He lowered the paper from in front of his face after a few minutes.
It all seemed very fantastic and radical to Dog Tate, yet there was such a hypnotic power in the voice and manner that he lowered his cocked rifle.
Slipping back of his saddle, onto the flanks of his mount, Turner lowered Henderson until he hung limp after the fashion of a meal-sack between cantle and pommel.
For a little space she looked at him with serious, pained eyes, suspicious of ridicule, then the expression altered to bewilderment, and her question came in a lowered voice.
Then from time to time the long pole with the claw at the end was lowered to the bottom and a sponge torn loose.
Had Dick come on deck two minutes sooner the bow of the yacht Gypsey would have been thrown up in the wind and that tiny launch lowered from the boat's davits in less time than it takes to tell of it.
The policeman lowered his charge, with a-- "Right we are, then!
He lowered the box with a little jerk on to the spread-out newspaper on the floor.
Madame Carolina had lowered her tone about the Minister since the Prince of Little Lilliput's apostasy.
Molly loweredher eyes, a faint pink color stole into her cheeks.
Oh, if I can only reach the coastguard station before the men have lowered the lifeboat!
And then the old lady lowered her hands and looked into Suzanna's face.
Her voice lowered itself: "He's a Socialist, Reynolds is, Suzanna.
She settled into the chair and lowered the foot on which she was sitting.
The queen obediently loweredher silver head to Suzanna.
The inventor touched levers, opened and shut doors, loweredthe helmet, adjusted the lens.
He heaped pillows in it, stood aside while the loud-voiced onelowered himself, groaningly, into the downy nest.
She lowered her head further and gave him a long, fresh, damp kiss.
The woman immediately released the catch of the gramophone and lowered the needle on to the disc, and Mr. Prohack heard music, but not from the cubicle.
In our rooms, up above, all was open to the air; bamboo blinds lowered on the sunny side, and through their transparency came warm air and golden threads of light.
The accommodation ladder had been lowered for my convenience, and as the gig dashed alongside and the oars were tossed in, Captain Baker made his appearance at the gangway to welcome me, and at once led me into the saloon.
Sir Edgar, excitedly, as he lowered his binoculars and turned to me.
They were massed together here, those with masts having lowered them to enter, floating and rubbing sides, quite unoccupied.
A dull steel door had been lowered behind them, barring the way to the back rooms.
Then, dimly as though in a dream, Ennis was aware of being lowered to the floor, of being half carried and half dragged along.
The man in the corner abruptlylowered his newspaper.
The hygroscopic moisture of the product is lowered from 10-11 p.
They note that the yield of cellulose is in many cases sensibly lowered by treating the material after drying at the temperature of 100°.
Grantly lowered his voice to the faintest mumble, "he never said a word of reproof or exhortation .
Someone might have lowered the trunk from the window by a rope, might they not?
I said I had meant no harm, and hoped I had not lowered myself in his estimation by raising him a few rods in the air.
He was lowered into the crevice, he descended deeper and deeper between the clear blue walls of solid ice, he approached a bend in the crack and disappeared under it.
They were dancing in the house opposite; like colourless phantoms the different couples glided across the lowered shades of the windows.
And as the Newfoundland gravely lowered his fine head, a performance for which he was duly caressed by his master, Oswald sank into a low seat beside his mother.
John Silence sat with his head thrust forward to catch every word of the story which the other continued to pour out in nervous, jerky sentences andlowered voice.
Then, after lying still for a bit, he rose to a crouching position as though to spring again, snarling horribly and making short half-circles with lowered head.
Flame led the way, walking slowly with lowered head, and Smoke followed demurely at his heels, making a transparent pretence of not being interested, yet missing nothing.
He took off his collar after infinite fumbling hesitation, and lowered his shirt a little for the doctor to see.
Godfrey and Tancred supported his claim, and, after a great deal of bickering, the flag of Raymond was lowered from the tower, and that of Bohemund hoisted in its stead, who assumed from that time the title of Prince of Antioch.
He lowered his head and told the rabbit to jump on one of his flat horns.
And the bear lowered his head for the leash with which Ga-oh bound him, and submissively took his place in the north sky.
She lowered it to the sidewalk and as she did so, she set the apples on a little post.
The Spahis who carried her stopped, all present formed a circle; two soldiers of the Engineers took the light bier, and lowered the poor Chica into her final dwelling-place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lowered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
