Beyond those lowlands a mighty neighbour, the parallel chain of Caucasus, faces them on the north.
Such scenes are the daily accompaniment of a summer sojourn in the towns upon the lowlands through which the Euphrates and the Tigris flow.
The alpine region has a breadth of some fifty miles more or less in the direction of the Black Sea, while the corresponding zone, facing the lowlands about Diarbekr, extends, on the whole, over a smaller span.
The nomad Arabs or Arabic-speaking cultivators of the lowlands are succeeded by the pastoral Kurds with their tribal organisation, and these again by the Armenian tillers of the soil.
Not even the convenient distinction of highlands and lowlandswill carry us very far.
The lowlands of Moray have long been celebrated for mildness and luxuriousness of climate, and also for a certain dryness of atmosphere, which seems to have some intimate connexion with the mournful calamity about to be described.
The lowlands upon which the city stands are made lands, where glacial débris has filled up the old channel of the Ohio.
Still farther down, the ancient glacier which descended the Limmatt spread itself out over the hills and lowlands about Zürich, one of its moraines of retrocession nearly dividing the lake into two portions.
In the fertile Lowlands that old grievance, insecurity of tenure, and the raising of rents in proportion to improvements made by the tenants, had baffled agriculture.
Scarce a noble or gentle house of the Lowlands but reckons an ancestor slain at Flodden.
In the Arctic lowlands and on the leeward side of mountains, the slight development of glaciation appears to have been due to scarcity of precipitation.
It will be recalled that the trade-wind lowlands and the extra-tropical belt of highs are the great desert belts at present.
The trade-wind lowlands are desert because air moving into warmer latitudes takes up water except where it is cooled by rising on mountain-sides.
Going before them, he walked from the fertilelowlands around Jericho into the bleak hills of Judea.
The road had gradually turned east, and now the green lowlands of the upper Jordan Valley lay behind them.
Fully four miles to the east stretched the broad lowlands of the Jordan, small hills, an occasional steep bluff, and at the center, the flooded river.
Tihamat al-Hijaz, the lowlandsof the mountain region.
Water obtained by digging is good where rain is fresh in the Fiumaras; saltish, so as to taste at first unnaturally sweet, in the plains; and bitter in the basins and lowlands where nitre effloresces and rain has had time to become tainted.
On the moist lowlands of the Atlantic coast the climate is oppressive, but on the highlands of the interior it is delightful.
On the lowlands they feed on dry grasses, and in Tibet on small woody plants.
It was the closely linked lowlands of the Seine and Loire which formed the core of political expansion and centralization in France.
To the pioneer settlers in the lowlands of Missouri the Ozark Plateau was a boon, because its streams furnished water-power for much needed saw and flour mills.
The world-wide maritime expansion of the English-speaking people had its starting point in the lowlands of the Elbe.
The level or undulating surface of extensive lowlands is not favorable to the early development of civilization.
It placed the center of political control high up on the barren plateau of Castile, far from the centers of population and culture in the river lowlandsor along the coast.
From time immemorial they have borne and bred tribes of wandering herdsmen; they have sent out the invading hordes who, in successive waves of conquest, have overwhelmed the neighboring river lowlands of Eurasia and Africa.
A similar amalgamation of races and peoples has taken place in the lowlands of England and Scotland, while diversity still lingers in the highlands.
Even in lowlands the relief, geologic structure, and soil are prone to vary over wide districts.
The seaboard lowlands of Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast have all suffered thus In historic times.
Pushing through the long settled lowlands of the seacoast, they at once made their abode at the foot of the mountains, and became the outposts of civilization.
Unlike the other sumacs, it grows for the most part in lowlands and swamps.
I knew it not; but a herd that I fell in with on the hill told me what town it was, and the names of divers clachans, and the houses of men of substance in the lowlands before me.
When brought into court he pleads that he cannot haul out a load of corn over rugged roads miles to a market and compete with a farmer from the lowlands who is not retarded by bad roads.
Yet nowhere in the United States is it warmer than in the lowlands of the Blue Ridge.
On the lowlands a pair of birds will take up their quarters near the place they intend to nest soon after their arrival and the cock bird may be seen high up in the air uttering his nesting song.
Just before the break the police ordered all persons in the lowlands to leave their homes quickly and flee for high land.
The Shamokin Creek, in Shamokin Valley, overflowed its banks in the lowlands and spread over acres of ground on either side of the creek channel.
Nature itself has provided in lowlands throughout all of these valleys receptacles which, before men came, took up the surplus waters.
Over in North Dayton, when the lowlands were inundated by the rush of the waters of the Mad River, the foreign population, which practically occupies that section, was driven to the upper floors and the housetops.
Crops in country districts were torn up and badly damaged, while lowlands were flooded.
Electric-light, telephone and telegraph wires were down in Shenandoah, and many homes in the lowlands were flooded.
Hundreds of residents of the lowlands abandoned their homes.
All the lowlands were under water, and a highway bridge west of Dennison was carried out by the tide.
As early as Wednesday the villages of Mount Morris and Dansville, in the Genesee River Valley, were under several feet of water, and the terrified folk who lived in the lowlands were hurrying to places of safety, abandoning their homes.
The water went over the lowlands on the west side and Wilkes-Barre was cut off from many of its suburban towns, all traffic being stopped.
East and west of the city on the Ohio side of the river the lowlands were inundated and much damage done.
Otters are found in good numbers in the swamps of the southern states; in Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and the lowlands of Texas.
The Carpathian range of mountains stretches from the northwest along the north and down the east, encircling the lowlands and sending forth rivers and streams to water the plains.
In the lowlands the summer is exceedingly hot, but frequent storms, which cool the air for some days, make the heat bearable.
The lowlands and the plain-- Blow, jonquil, blow your golden horn Across the ranks of rain!
On the southern side, nature puts on a bolder aspect and a narrower belt of lowlands is traversed by several rivers, which discharge the drainage of the southern slope into the Pacific Ocean, and into the lagoons that border the ocean.
Its greatest havoc was in the interior, on the central plateau, and in the coldest and most arid regions, the lowlandsof the coast being nearly, if not entirely, free from its effects.
The Huaves, who are said to have come by sea from the south, and to have landed near the present city of Tehuantepec, spread out over the lowlands and around the lagoons on the south-western coast of Oajaca.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lowlands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
