How to Use lowland in a Sentence

lowland

noun
  • There are plenty of places in the lowlands where lakes are opening up along the edges.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2018
  • Under a full moon on a hazy morning, a lowland tapir ambles down a road.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The excess runoff is now forcing many lowland rivers beyond their banks.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The edges of beaver ponds and meandering lowland seeps are hotspots.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Beeches greened, and steely clouds played off the lowland's quicksilver light.
    — Tess Taylor, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2022
  • The image also captures lowland plains to the right and highland plains to the left.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Great fissures have appeared in the earth, and the ocean is encroaching on the lowlands.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The area has a variety of ecosystems, from lowland rain forests to mangrove swamps.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Some lowland areas could see temps a few degrees into the low 60s.
    — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Steve taught me how to travel soundlessly through the lowland wilderness.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Water drawn from the rivers and spread across their deltas allows the lowland farmers to raise two crops a year, sometimes three.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • The chance of snow comes after the first lowland dusting of the season Tuesday.
    — oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2021
  • These are prolific biters, which hatch from eggs in lowland areas expected to flood each year.
    — Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • The world’s first peppers probably sprouted from the lowlands of what is now Brazil.
    — Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
  • Vertical cliffs, cut with deep crevices, rise 2,000 feet above the lush lowlands like stone walls.
    — Tyrone Beason, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The lowlands have large areas of peat floating on water that can give way easily, and walkers could fall through.
    — Ian Austen, New York Times, 28 July 2019
  • That slight tilt is enough to affect river flow, leading to more frequent lowland flooding when snow melts every spring.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This lowland area is home to Cape Town's most infamous suburbs or townships.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2021
  • This practice was used in the lowland, coastal part of the Inca empire, but not in the mountains, researchers said.
    — Fox News, 26 Sep. 2019
  • And second, how has Playhouse square were responding to the lowland cases?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2022
  • One clue that oceans might once have covered much of the planet lies in the shoreline-like features found across the planet's northern lowlands.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Conditions would have stymied efforts to raise crops, such as the barley raised in warmer Tibetan valleys and lowlands.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Ozzie, a western lowland silverback, was found dead by his care team Tuesday morning, the zoo said in a news release.
    — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Sun Bears are reclusive and live an insular life in the dense lowland forests of Southeast Asia.
    — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • On Earth, tectonics build mountain ranges and deep lowlands that guide and connect river systems.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • And the team thinks the DMT may have been from chacruna, a plant from the Amazonian lowlands.
    — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 6 May 2019
  • Two big terms to know are highland and lowland, which don’t correspond to specific regions but rather the altitude at which the agave is grown.
    — Max Falkowitz, GQ, 3 May 2018
  • Bialowieza is one of the last remaining parts of the primal forest that once stretched across the northern European lowlands.
    — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The property features a mixed forest of mature oak, jack pine, white pine and red pine as well as lowland conifers near the river, including cedar.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Most western lowland gorillas live to 30 or 40 in the wild, officials said.
    — Noah Goldbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022

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