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Meanings of lowly in English
Inferior in rank or status.
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Examples for "base"
Examples for "base"
1
Let's look at one particular area: where companies and organisations base themselves.
2
The timing felt right: This year also marks the base's 75th anniversary.
3
He said the party needs to attract a new base of support.
4
They are corrupt; they are base; they are cowardly; they are cruel.
5
Degradation of the land base is another critical problem requiring technical assistance.
1
He was a baseborn son of one of Lord Botley's half brothers.
2
The king had other baseborn children scattered throughout the Seven Kingdoms.
3
A baseborn girl, less than a year old, with a whore for a mother.
4
Half a wolf and half a wildling, baseborn get of a traitor and a whore.
5
Law and custom gave the baseborn few rights.
Usage of lowly in English
1
Niryn did not regret his lowly birth; quite the opposite, in fact.
2
She would soon forget that night in London with her lowly lieutenant.
3
Their first aim was lowly; and the way gradually opened before them.
4
Give wisdom to the simple this day, and understanding to the lowly.
5
She had learnt also the lowly and self-denying faith in common chances.
6
The other men laughed, but the Red Fox looked meek and lowly.
7
Meanwhile, Olive is on borrowed time as a lowly City Hall typist.
8
Such is the worldly station of these apostles of the lowly Jesus.
9
The leading four will meet lowly placed teams in the last round.
10
Take the retail apprenticeship, a weak, lowly esteemed course in generic basics.
11
Only among the lowly, the unlearned, and the poor was English heard.
12
The crowd as he passed along made lowly prostration before the Image.
13
Surely this proud automaton of Hapsburg was growing lowly in his tastes.
14
Latest - Eels book NRL finals spot with win over lowly Titans.
15
Custer, however, was disposed to regard the lowly steed in some disdain.
16
He embraceth naturally ancient custom, conversing in open fields and lowly cottages.
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Lowly across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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