low-rise
having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.
(of pants) having a waistline placed at or just below the hips: low-rise jeans.
a low-rise building.
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How to use low-rise in a sentence
This is one of those incredibly hip places that looks like a low-rise apartment building.
The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the Bayou | John Ed Bradley | April 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the foot of the lone tree hill they came again side by side, and so mounted the next low rise of ground.
The Long Roll | Mary JohnstonThe party of Indians were on a low rise several miles distant as we came out of the shelter of the high plateau.
The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon | Wyn RooseveltI checked him to a sharp trot until we had passed the first low rise of rolling land which hid my movements from the city.
The Mercy of Allah | Hilaire BellocCarrie watched him from the homestead until at last he sank behind the crest of a low rise.
By Right of Purchase | Harold Bindloss
Carrie looked out into the soft moonlight, and saw a mounted figure cut against the sky on the crest of a low rise.
By Right of Purchase | Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for low-rise
of or relating to a building having only a few storeys: Compare high-rise
such a building
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