Sentence examples for low words from inspiring English sources
We all need those "low" words.
In "An Essay in Criticism," published in 1711 when he was twenty-two, Pope skewered writers who took the banal ring of couplets at face value: And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line, While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes, With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes.
But she is obviously much happier putting top spins on zingers or delivering low-down words with crisp hauteur.
The grid has a nice low word count besides".
The white space around the square requires a low word count — 138 words did the trick.
So why is it that some of the more interesting writing experiments online mandate absurdly low word counts?
More specifically, families that started with low word counts are showing increases of about fifty per cent in daily word counts and thirty per cent in conversational turns.
But picture the poor lexicographer at the OED who wrote that to bog is a "low word, scarcely found in literature, however common in coarse colloquial language".
Some parents and teachers regard comics, with their sentences jammed into bubbles and their low word-to-picture ratio, as part of the problem when it comes to low reading scores and the much-lamented decline in reading for pleasure.
We keep the black squares in our puzzles down to a sixth or less of the total number of squares, and try for a low word count, since the longer the words the harder the puzzle.
