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

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

On the first floor a low-browed door, clamped and studded with iron, showed itself.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

That the muddy brick pavement, the low-browed shops, the leafless trees all seemed brighter than before, and that even the butcher's stall became almost a thing of beauty?

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John