low-browed
Example Sentences
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Neanderthals tend to be cast as the low-browed thugs of the prehistoric world, who stood little chance against the superior intellect and hunting prowess of our own ancestors.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2018
Willerslev said the latest findings added to the view that Neanderthals and other now extinct hominins, traditionally portrayed as low-browed prehistoric thugs, were “in reality not particularly different” from our own ancestors.
From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2016
About it are gathered her warships of to-day—dark, low-browed fighters like our own—any one of them able to send to the bottom a whole fleet like Nelson's and the combined fleets besides.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
From it the dark opening of a winding staircase led upwards on one hand; on the other a low-browed door masked the course of the downward flight.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.
There is no far-spreading forest—no yawning ravine, with "ebon shades and low-browed rocks"—no beetling cliff or precipice, "shagged" with brushwood, as Milton hath it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
