lower orders
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, soaring costs have spurred customers to delay their projects, resulting in lower orders at its renewable energy business.
From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2022
Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?
From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2020
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2017
The company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015
One of the zoologists, conceiving this minor expedition would furnish him with an excellent opportunity for examining some of the lower orders of marine life, attached himself to it.
