How to Use low-lying in a Sentence

low-lying

adjective

• The images show how the lake bloomed across the low-lying salt flat on Aug. 30.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• The area that flooded is a low-lying flood plain for the Po River.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• The area that flooded is a low-lying floodplain for the Po River.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Over the course of the summer, the waters converged in the low-lying areas around the Indus River.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
• Beadle left his home Wednesday in a low-lying area about 10 miles outside town as the rain picked up.
  — Jack Brook and Sara Cline, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
• Strong winds will occur at times, plus a chance of flooding in low-lying areas.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• The rise will accelerate the drowning of low-lying lands, per Hein.
  — Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 12 July 2024
• The low-lying southbound lanes are closed during the highest tides of the year, when waves carry rocks and sand onto the pavement.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• Brownsville also mirrors the early days of the Space Coast in some ways: low-lying, close to the beach, swaths of undeveloped land.
  — Emre Kelly, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023
• Rivers, streams and low-lying areas could see flooding.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Of note, the low-lying area in and around Miami is also projected to be at the greatest flash flood risk.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
• Runoff may cause flooding in rivers, creeks and other low-lying areas.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
• There’s a reason this long string of low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean is at the top of many travelers' lists.
  — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2024
• Some areas of the city saw a month's worth of rainfall in only two hours, with flash floods being seen in poor drainage and low-lying areas.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Forty-four rooms and suites, stuffed into a few low-lying buildings, come with terraces and patios.
  — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
• Louisville's East End has a slight risk for damaging winds and flooding in low-lying areas.
  — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 10 Apr. 2024
• East Boston is considered a flood zone due to the low-lying shoreline next to the neighborhood.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Initially, the Coastal Commission required a 150-acre reef to be built of low-lying boulders in the ocean north of the power plant near San Clemente.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Cooling sea breezes don’t reach these low-lying plains, which also receive less rainfall than the east.
  — Gavin Butler Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• In some cases, streams spilled over roads and water rose across low-lying roadways in a matter of minutes.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• High tides and storm surf erode the bluffs and sometimes wash rocks and sand onto the low-lying traffic lanes between Manzano Drive and Island Way.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
• Plus, low-lying areas of the county will get a rare visitor this weekend: frost.
  — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
• The litter, also found in parts of Olmos Basin and along the low-lying River Basin, was left over from river flooding due to heavy rains last week.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Apr. 2023
• Piotrowski explains that a home near a city water drain likely sits in a low-lying area.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2024
• For the first two days of my mid-March trip, dense low-lying clouds had been dumping snow on the 2,900-acre resort nestled among the Selkirk Mountains in northern Idaho.
  — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2023
• Although the rains are not forecast to be as heavy, the ground is soaked and many low-lying areas remain filled with water, which raises the risk of more flooding.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• Flash flooding can happen anywhere in the country and is most common in low-lying areas with poor drainage.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• Clubs sprang up in Podil, a low-lying bohemian neighborhood by the Dnipro River.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Bronx and Yonkers supplied hills and elevation, essential for creating the sense of Crown Point as a low-lying area that would suffer the most extreme flooding.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
• Water levels are expected to continue rising in the coming days, posing a major flood risk in low-lying parts of the county, officials said.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024