I walked along the path towards the house, glancing at the windows, and fearing at every step to see Mr. Murdstone or Miss Murdstone lowering out of one of them.
I seemed to have left the Doctor's roof with a dark cloud lowering on it.
A cloud is lowering on the distant town, towards which I retraced my solitary steps.
Marston had recovered his usual lowering aspect and gloomy self-possession in a few moments, and was now standing erect and defiant before the humbled and afflicted minister of God.
It would be difficult not to speak of La Mare au Diable and the Meunier d'Angibault when recalling the fields where Rosa Bonheur speeds the plow or places the oxen lowering their patient heads under the yoke.
Your soul is great, noble, ready to dispense with treasures, and incapable of lowering itself to the care of amassing them.
What though the heaven be lowering now, And look with a contracted brow?
If you tried any artifice in order to find me less worthy of you than I am in reality, you would only succeed in lowering yourself in my estimation.
She was too young to have lowered herself before, and she would certainly look upon a connection with me as a lowering of her dignity.
As he began lowering the massive flight helmet, he noted that with the engines on military power they had exactly eighteen minutes of JP-7 left.
He laughed, then beganlowering his high-tech helmet.
But towards the middle of it, and on to its very close, there was an undoubted lowering in the general tone of the Episcopal order.
In both one and the other the high feeling of faith was enervated; and this deficiency was sensibly felt in a lowering of general tone, both in the domain of intellect and in that of practice.
The Republicans then faced the alternative of lowering the customs or turning to the policy of increased expenditure.
It's put off," he said, loweringhis voice mysteriously.
Far away where the lowering clouds meet the hills beyond the village a white glare grows and fades again at intervals: star-shells.
Already two men were lowering the long bundle into the grave.
I have been drugged and robbed," he replied, lowering his voice.
With the lowering of the bed the river swerves toward one bank, and a hollow is worn by slow degrees.
That V is the face of the Bull and that red star is the baleful eye of the angry Bull which is lowering his head and trying to toss Orion.
Harris," said he, loweringhis voice, "was there not a trembling in that papyrus bush?
Dick Sand, in front, lowering his voice, gave directions to avoid striking against these rotten constructions.
Runeck stood there with lowering brow and compressed lips, but replied by not a syllable.
The paper flamed up and was quickly consumed, while the Baron threw himself back in his chair and with lowering countenance gazed into the fire, ever devising new plans.
The story of our patriots is involved; Charles appears to have been lowering those high notions of his prerogative, which were not peculiar to him, and was throwing himself on the bosom of his people.
Spaniard, by a natural gesticulation lowering on one side, shows a single ear.
The calm, however, still continued, and at length the time came for lowering our late captain into his ocean grave.
They had better have kept at a distance, for, lowering his head, he caught the first which leaped towards him on his horn, and threw him back dead among the reeds.
The King, as the Ambassador informs me, is now employed in examining the duties payable in his ports, with a view oflowering them in favor of America, and thereby encouraging and facilitating our mutual commerce.
This is done by lowering into the hole instruments for observing at a number of successive points the direction and degree of deviation.
In deep holes the speeds diminish, because of time consumed in raising and lowering the rods.
It has recently been discovered that alcohol has an extremely injurious effect upon the colorless corpuscles of the blood, lowering their ability to fight disease germs to a marked degree.
The frog breathes by raising and lowering the floor of the mouth, pulling in air through the two nostril holes.
Lowering his eyes, Koot let out a spurt of speed, and the next thing he knew he had tripped his snow-shoe and tumbled.
The Turk uttered a few words full of warning, and the second Greek paused to speak in a low pleading tone, to which Yussuf responded by lowering his arm and watching his enemies while one helped the other back to his place where he had clung.
Lawrence, with his face scarlet; and he leaned towards Yussuf, and held out his hand to the Turk, who sat with angry, lowering countenance upon his horse.
She had not erred from want of knowledge, but from the strong impulse of vanity which led her to neglect it; but sickness, by lowering her spirits, had taken away the false glare which dazzled her eyes, and restored her to her sight.
Even those who make it their business to slander merit, and exaggerate the faults of others, do it from a desire of raising themselves in the opinion of mankind, by lowering those who may be brought into comparison with them.
With lowering brow he now took a short cut that he might avoid passing it.
Our Huns began to arrive, their Attilas unrecognized among them: to drive our honest Americans and Irish and Germans out of the mills by "lowering the standard of living.
And so to-day I have lived more or less under a cloud--a cloud in the shape of a lowering frown on Dimbie's face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lowering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
