How to Use lowly in a Sentence

lowly

1 of 2 adjective
  • He was working as a lowly clerk.
  • He resented his lowly status.
  • Of course, even the lowly sound machine has gone high-tech these days.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Then the host gave her a lowly three-star review for cleanliness.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the lowly, but mighty, wig remains.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The Phillies are 8-15, one game ahead of the lowly Mets.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Who could possibly be lower than the lowly thieves?
    — Ryan Huling, Time, 7 May 2026
  • To this point in the year, the Sky have compiled a lowly 8-21 record.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The lowly maggot gets a bad rap, mostly known for feeding on corpses and rotting meat.
    — Mustafa Fattah, NBC news, 17 May 2026
  • Toe to toe, on land, the hippo towers over its lowly opponent.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Even lowly marshmallow Rice Krispies treats had their sticky day.
    — Clorisa Phillips, ajc, 20 Dec. 2022
  • A little lowly courier work, yes, but nothing more raffish than that.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The methods that propelled you from a lowly count to the ruler of many kingdoms may not serve you well as emperor.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Jordan could see a lot of action this week against lowly Las Vegas.
    — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Miller added that not only was Movie Night back, but us lowly fans are its curators.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 June 2026
  • God uses the broken and lowly to confound the strong and powerful.
    — Cameron Smith | [email protected], al, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Such is the suffering of the lowly expendables, but spoils of war for the oligarchy of greed and power.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • That lowly figure makes the film the second biggest to be released in Korea this year.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Miami’s first test out of the bye will be the lowly New Orleans Saints.
    — Miami Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The likelihood of a loss to the lowly Beavers is south of 50 percent but well north of zero.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • God took the lowly form of man not only to be more relatable to us, but to save sinners, like me, who have no eternal redeemer.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Six years ago, Shohei Ohtani shocked the baseball world by signing with the lowly Angels.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The members of each faction, from the lowliest grunt to the top of the chain, are framed to be completely committed to their group’s cause.
    — Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Cardinals’ final six games are all against the lowly Pirates.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The Panthers had won three in a row and six of seven before falling to the lowly Flyers.
    — Aaron Bracy, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • By the end of the morning session, I had been turned down more times than a lowly high school sophomore trying to get a date for the prom.
    — Jj Rosen, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Just two touchdowns for the lowly Cleveland offense, with about four catches and 37 yards per game.
    — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, Canada demolished a lowly Qatar side.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • In the end, the lowly boneless, skinless chicken breast ascends to a tender, silky piece of meat, anything but boring.
    — Ian Knauer, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The Lakers are a lowly 11-16 and can’t seem to string together more than three wins at a time.
    — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022

lowly

2 of 2 adverb
  • Savages and heathens, lowly and oppressed, hailed and welcomed it at the far end of the wide world.
    — Josh Axelrod and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 June 2021
  • Live with a God who loves you so much He was born in a lowly stable and died on a wooden cross.
    — cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Outside, plant the two-foot-tall perennial near the border’s front in well-draining, lowly fertile soil.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
  • One player pits her lowly Sandshrew against the legendary Reshiram.
    — Julius Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The Kenyan shilling has for the longest time been measuring lowly against the US dollar.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
  • An excellent metric for gauging whether stocks around the globe are richly, lowly or reasonably priced is the ratio of price to cash flow.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
  • When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That being said, there have been a few undrafted -- or lowly drafted -- players who have made an impact in Indy.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2023
  • Swap out your regular light bulbs for a lower wattage, install a dimmer or a wall sconce that is intentionally lowly lit.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 21 July 2023
  • The oversized lapel proved anticlimactic, revealing a lowly white tee.
    — Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Wiggins, 31, appeared in court in orange prison scrubs, flip-flops and handcuffs, speaking lowly and showing little emotion.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • Car makers in general are lowly valued because investors assume their profits will disappear in the next downturn.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Agnes knows better than to idolize such a shallow fellow, saving her affections for a lowly stable boy (Malte Gårdinger).
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
  • William Day was a lowly young fourth lieutenant when the deaths of his superior officers gave him command of a ship stranded in the Arctic ice.
    — Alida Becker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, not all such jobs are equal, and while there are many that are highly skilled and well-compensated, there are equally many that are lowly compensated and provide huge uncertainty to workers.
    — Pavel Krapivin, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The Giants offense has been pretty lowly lately, but that hasn't stopped San Francisco from rattling off a bunch of wins to remain afloat in the playoff race.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 17 July 2023
  • The freshman briefly earned Heisman buzz before losing two of the final five games with a narrow escape at lowly-Kansas effectively ending any shot of his dark horse bid.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The sense of nothing going to waste—of experiences, lowly or intense, being stashed away for creative recycling—resounds through Kushins’s biography.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The club also gifted Bayern the title on two occasions, most famously last season, when the Black and Yellows threw away the title by failing to beat lowly Mainz.
    — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • An intelligent, thoughtful man capable of reciting from memory long passages of scripture as well as Shakespeare, Hill never did anything as lowly as complain about being overlooked for the Hall.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021

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