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

In the low-browed churches divine honours are paid to a crowned and risen Christ, and the white-robed women have been baptized into His name.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

For the low-ceiled kitchen, with its shadowy chimney-corner and its low-browed windows, had another look for her now; and the stillness of the house another meaning.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

Though unprepossessing, low-browed, and surly looking, he was evidently a stout fellow, and accustomed to work.

From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Robinson, Rowland E.