How to Use low-level in a Sentence

low-level

adjective
  • Over time, stress keeps your body in a state of low-level disruption.
    — Jennifer Klump, Verywell Health, 1 June 2026
  • The quiet bustle of the room heightens to a low-level buzz of stress.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Sick birds with a low-level infection tend to not show many symptoms.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The overhead lights change from being simply dim to a dark, low-level blue.
    — Rm Clark, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Girls often perform low-level work.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Hernández wasn’t some low-level player.
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Also, one of my low-level takes is that more goalies should throw their sticks to prevent easy empty-net goals.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Angels picked him up for a low-level minor leaguer.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The air mass will overall warm, however, as low-level winds shift to the southwest.
    — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • But across the board, women are more likely to stagnate in their careers and stay longer in low-level roles.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Going 6-6 and making a low-level bowl was a letdown.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Some may be low-level officials, such as election workers.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Her office pushes for harsher charges or time in jail for even low-level offenders.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The larger issue at play, however, is a low-level disgust with some of his habits.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 24 July 2025
  • Both buildings had one low-level detection, the county said.
    — Christina Hall, Freep.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The area is already home to a disposal site for low-level radioactive waste.
    — June 18, CBS News, 18 June 2025
  • Over time my wife and I developed low-level headaches and labored breathing.
    — Sunset Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024
  • At some point, the cartels began paying these low-level contractors in drugs.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • All of the lighting is low-level, solar-powered or from renewable sources.
    — Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The Prime Video film sees three improv actors hired by the police to help stage low-level stings.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Even low-level exposure can result in heavy metals slowly building up in the body over time.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • Many children locked up in the detention center are assessed to be low-level risk to re-offend.
    — María Ramos Pacheco, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • He was banned from having any contact with the tow truck driver and placed on low-level monitoring.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Two were low-level career criminals.
    — NPR, 8 Nov. 2025
  • In the 1920s, the city built a prison farm where low-level convicts were forced to grow crops and raise livestock.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • There is already a disposal site in the county for low-level radioactive waste.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The oil- and mineral-rich region has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency.
    — ABC News, 24 May 2026
  • This evening, we’re set to meet with two low-level sicarios, who can provide us some up-to-date intel on the status of the war for the city.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Records in the case of a man facing a low-level misdemeanor charge in the Downtown brawl will be released.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The agreements, widely used to avoid clogging courts and jails with low-level offenders, have legal teeth.
    — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023

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