Example sentences for: low-lying

How can you use “low-lying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The daily drama of ferryboats, freighters, junks with dirty grey sails, low-lying sampans — even small tankers and big gunboats — unfolds right in the center of town.

  • The WP goes more for narrative, with such passages as: "In county after county, meanwhile, people confronted hardships that seemed almost biblical in scope: Coffins sent floating away from low-lying cemeteries; portable incinerators being assembled to dispose of 100,000 dead hogs and a million drowned poultry; oceanfront homes being swept away; and thousands of residents living without safe tap water, telephones or mail service."

  • The serra is a verdant landscape of cork, pine, and chestnut trees, and low-lying areas are covered in blankets of colorful wildflowers.

  • A district known as the Baixa (Lower City) — the low-lying area between hills on either side — was devastated by the great earthquake of 1755.

  • Ride through colorful bulb fields or across the polders (low-lying lands reclaimed from the sea) and rivers from the comfort of your seat, and all in 30 minutes.


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