Sentence examples for of lowly status from inspiring English sources

(Watching the Knicks play made clear why this dismal team is also of lowly status).

There were times when the soggy pitch seemed as congested and patternless as the M4, littered with obstructive cones and fraught occupants, which separates these two clubs of lowly status.

With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of "Southwark Street" incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.

She tells him that she fears he will discard her because of her lowly status; his promise of love, over a sacred fire, therefore feels more momentous, and better reflects Ludwig Minkus's score.

And Cambridge United made a nonsense of their lowly status to fulfil their part of the bargain and give the city known around the world for its university a night when it could take pride in its football team.

Supposedly intended to stop diversion, this rule seemed to be a thinly-veiled punishment, a way of ensuring that you began each and every day by being reminded of your lowly status on society's ladder.

For her part, Husna, a more hard-boiled Madame Bovary, envious of the glittering, jet-­setting lives of the rich, ingratiates herself to the old man through calculated flirtations, believing sex is her ticket out of her lowly status.

When her female characters do bond, it's often dispiriting to hear what they choose to share: the memory of an erotic charge they felt while being subjugated by a man; a generally passive acceptance of their lowly status.

Regardless of their lowly status, Kenya's tenacity regularly causes problems to the top teams and England only managed to dismiss the Africans in the 43rd and final over of a rain-reduced contest.

Walking through the parole office, you can't miss the evidence of parole's lowly status.

Dr Kelly is "knocked back" by descriptions of his allegedly "lowly" status.