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Example sentences for "lowing"

Lexicographically close words:
lowered; lowering; lowermost; lowers; lowest; lowland; lowlander; lowlands; lowlier; lowliest
  1. The first edition reads,-- "The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea.

  2. But anon, the sound of the mower's rifle was heard in the fields, and this, too, mingled with the lowing of kine.

  3. The confined path rung with the lowing of the alarmed and reluctant cattle, forced onward cruelly by the spears of their drivers, whose wild and terrific oaths completed the discordant tumult.

  4. At length the lowing of other cattle than their own greeted their ears, and the fresher breeze that came over the cleared ground announced that they had passed the boundary, and were now actually entering the domain of Mr. Deverell.

  5. Another of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge was his musical lowing every evening as he returned to his haggard, his shed and his byre.

  6. Now the sounds, mingled with a chorus of lowing and bellowing, reached us from one side, now from the other, every moment approaching nearer, so that we agreed that it would be wise to catch our horses and mount.

  7. While still some distance from home, the loud lowing of a cow reached our ears.

  8. The seal rolled over with a moan, not unlike the faint lowing of a calf, and floating in a pool of blood, rather than water, expired without a struggle.

  9. With the decorous conduct of her sex she made not the attempt; but during the hour we wandered about the sleeping village in search of some boatmen to row us back to Auron, we could hear her lowing piteously.

  10. At moments the clear eye became angered and the lowing hoarse.

  11. April cold with dropping rain Willows and lilacs brings again, The whistle of returning birds, And trumpet-lowing of the herds.

  12. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

  13. And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

  14. The cattle, on whom the water was gaining in the hold, were lowing piteously.

  15. Towards the morning, the storm having abated, and the wind becoming manageable, the captain of the Shealtiel had heard the lowing of oxen in the open sea.

  16. A few times it seemed to him as if he heard human cries and the lowing of cattle.

  17. That cow which you have taken was of no worth to me, for who wishes to keep a beast that is ever tearing and lowing at the gates of the kraal, disturbing those who would sleep inside with her noise?

  18. From a corner of the stable comes the lowing of a cow.

  19. In their stables the cows were lowing very badly.

  20. But as he passed the stables he heard the cows lowing badly.

  21. He gave so excellent an imitation of the cow's lowing that it was answered again by the others.

  22. The calves put their slobbering noses out at the doors, gazing into the sunny air and lowing feelingly.

  23. Other days were long enough, but seemed to sing themselves away, in the ring of scythes, the lowing of cattle, and people's voices far away.

  24. One heifer returned the cry, and, lowing from the depth of the dreary cave, baffled the hope of Cacus from her imprisonment.

  25. With such mutual words they drew nigh the house of poor Evander, and saw scattered herds lowing on the Roman Forum and down the gay Carinae.

  26. The occasional baa-ing and bleating on the booms were answered by the lowing of three milch-cows between the hatchways of the deck below; where also were to be descried a few more coops, containing fowls and rabbits.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.