Meanings of lowering on in English

He sat in silence, a gloomy resentment lowering on his features.

The dawn was late and lowering on the following morning.

However, the effect of diet-induced lipid lowering on plaque accumulation was blunted by P. gingivalis infection.

Keith's smile died out, and there was something very like a cloud lowering on his brow.

The sun was lowering on the horizon.

She had noticed the cloud lowering on Garstin's face and knew that he was irritated by Arabian's hesitation.

These were placed aft, ready for lowering on to the raft as soon as one could be put together.

But the pressing disc of the battle-front which had been lowering on Chicago, greatest of Earth's metropolises, was lifted.

Many drew true and evil augury from the cloud lowering on the stern features of the "Haughty Earl."

Analyses will further assess the impact of BP- lowering on important, but less well understood, outcomes, such as new-onset diabetes and renal disease.

Objective: To compare the effect of regimens designed to produce intensive lipid lowering or moderate lipid lowering on coronary artery atheroma burden and progression.

Albuminuria did not significantly modify the beneficial effects of intensive systolic BP lowering on cardiovascular events or mortality evaluated on relative or absolute scales.

The wind shrieked, the billows roared and crashed, and the shadow of death seemed to be lowering on us from the black sky overhead.

The result is a much smoother, more controlled descent-somethingI greatly appreciated while rapping and lowering on that 8.9 mm rope.

"We want you to edit the household department, Felicity," I said, seeing a cloud lowering on that fair lady's brow.