level

How to use level in a sentence

"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.

The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.

By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!

CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES

I'd have enjoyed punching his proud head, for all that; it was a dirty way to serve a man who had done his level best.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

It is not quite so level nor so perfectly cultivated as central Belgium, but is generally fertile and promises fairly.

Then, in heaven's name, do not put such a noble creature as Doa Inez on a level with a mere little trifling coquette.

To drop on one knee and level his piece was the work of an instant, but unfortunately he snapped a dry twig in doing so.

But for the trees, these sullen skies and level grounds would render England dreary enough.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985