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
One end of the large, low-browed apartment was blocked by the loom, for Portia had been accustomed to spin, weave, dye, and fashion all the garments worn by herself and her family.
From Horace Chase by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
For the low-ceiled kitchen, with its shadowy chimney-corner and its low-browed windows, had another look for her now; and the stillness of the house another meaning.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
