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Meanings of
low-lying
in English
Lying below the normal level.
sea-level
Related terms
lowland
Low-lying.
Related terms
low
Synonyms
Examples for "
sea-level
"
sea-level
Examples for "
sea-level
"
1
Other data such as
sea
-
level
pressure and wind indexes are also used.
2
Congress should have decided in favor of a
sea-level
canal at Panama.
3
Two plans have been suggested: the lock-canal plan and the
sea-level
plan.
4
The summit of the pass is about seven thousand feet above
sea-level
.
5
Mertz boiled the hypsometer when necessary to ascertain our elevation above
sea-level
.
Usage of
low-lying
in English
1
Solving the problem of the
low
-
lying
Levels is not a simple process.
2
He said Kiribati and other
low
-
lying
countries were already feeling the effects.
3
Millions of people from China to Florida live in
low
-
lying
coastal areas.
4
Civil Defence suggests residents in
low
-
lying
coastal areas consider staying elsewhere tonight.
5
Every wave of new ideas innundates the
low-lying
plain of the Vistula.
6
Funaki said there's flooding in
low
-
lying
areas and people had been evacuated.
7
Traveling west, they soon left behind the
low
-
lying
basin of windy plains.
8
In still other regions the rainfall is abundant, and the land
low-lying
.
9
From around 1300, windmills were developed to pump water off
low
-
lying
land.
10
Residents in
low
-
lying
areas have been evacuated, many of them by helicopter.
11
Suddenly it was found that this was the crop for
low-lying
Carolina.
12
What I most regretted in Port Louis was its
low-lying
,
fever-haunted situation.
13
It was mostly higher ground here, but for one notorious
low
-
lying
section.
14
Amateur footage captures the category four storm pummelling the
low
-
lying
Florida Keys.
15
And Cameroonians frequently find frogs suffocated by CO2 in
low
-
lying
mud puddles.
16
That, she knew, would submerge
low
-
lying
zones, with frightening implications for residents.
Other examples for "low-lying"
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About this term
low-lying
Adjective
Frequent collocations
low-lying clouds
low-lying land
low-lying meadows
low-lying parts
low-lying alligator
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