The phrase "a lower ceiling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing limitations, restrictions, or physical structures, such as in architecture or metaphorically in discussions about potential or expectations.
Example: "The new policy has created a lower ceiling on employee bonuses, limiting their earning potential."
Alternatives: "a reduced limit" or "a diminished threshold".
Off the living room is a formal dining room with a lower ceiling.
A carbon tax would put a lower ceiling on national gasoline use without more aggressive regulatory interventions.
The barnlike structure we wandered through is smaller and has a lower ceiling than a high school gym.
The reset proposal also features shorter contracts, a lower midlevel exception and a lower ceiling on maximum salaries.
Firms will therefore use less of it per unit of output.The result is a lower ceiling on production.
Amazon is also stopping its practice of giving workers a quarter raise every six months, effectively creating a lower ceiling on how much veteran employees can earn.
A lowered ceiling in a dining area, for instance, can be pleasant and intimate, but a lowered ceiling covering only part of the area can be most distracting.
A lowered ceiling inset with lights gave off a warm glow, illuminating the pastry cabinet with Odwalla and Naked juices, marshmallow squares and iced sugar cookies, and sandwiches of tomato and mozzarella on ciabatta, turkey and pesto on baguette, and tarragon chicken salad.
White II returns to the here and now: the stage's own mechanics dominate this episode, during which low-hanging lighting rigs are raised, a black floorcloth lifted to form a lowering ceiling, and the dancers pull up cables to allow strips of flooring to be dragged off.
With a floor painted bright yellow, a lowered ceiling and expanses of deep-red drapes, Mr. Althoff has remade the Gladstone Gallery according to his own needs, which seem to have required less space (about a third is simply sectioned off and ignored) and an effect that is both vivid and tacky, redolent of a bygone era, even if you don't know which one.
In the center of the store is a slower area for browsing and trying on shoes that retains the overall industrialized aesthetic but also has fluted glass panels, soft geometric couches and a lowered ceiling, inferring intimacy.
