ADJECTIVE
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used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low
looking out over the roofs of low-rise apartment buildings
How To Use low-rise In A Sentence
- Keeping buildings low-rise and increasing the number of front doors helps to cut down bills. Times, Sunday Times
- The urban project site, amid low-rise storefronts and mid-rise medical buildings, was definitely not a garden spot.
- She was wearing dark name-brand low-rise flares and a pink polo shirt, large silver earrings and some glitzy heels.
- Heritage also uses freshly milled flour, purchased from a local miller, and both bakeries use a slow-rise yeast to make their bread.
- Most visitors stay in the few miles of low-rise hotels which stretches along part of the east coast.
- Cited for improvements at the block scale is a section of Bethesda, Maryland that had been characterized by underused shops, low-rise office buildings, and surface parking lots.
- Feminism which is, of course, expressed through the time-honored medium of a fetching Andre-the-Giant-esque sports bra and skin-tight low-rise Han Solo pants, just as it should be. Your Mileage May Vary | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
- An hour-and-a-half away by train and then taxi, the rural hamlet is accessible only by dirt roads that are lined with low-rise houses, vegetable patches and wild-looking dogs.
- A long colonnade of towers would line Atlantic Avenue, terracing down to a landscaped park bounded by low-rise residential buildings, scaled to the existing brownstone neighborhood just to the south.
- The duo will retain the tower but will demolish three low-rise buildings and replace them with eight new ones. Times, Sunday Times