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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
low-slung
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A low-slung gray Chevy pulled into the lot.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre.
▪ It filled several low-slung office buildings in Cupertino, and had hundreds of employees.
▪ It was magnificently low-slung, almost like a sports car, but with four plush leather seats and a thrusting bonnet.
▪ Its long, low-slung body with squarish sides is a throwback to the Lincoln Continentals of the 1960s.
▪ Most of these are the tracks of low-slung voles whose bellies drag in the snow.
▪ Nissan's ten-year-old car and truck plant is a huge complex of white, impersonal, low-slung buildings.

Usage examples of "low-slung".

Diesel engines pig-grunted as the smooth low-slung shapes of the tanks and tank-destroyers crashed through brush and twelve-foot high cornstalks, past the flaming shards of a farmhouse and barns.

The low-slung robot rumbled imperturbably up the ramp and through the arch.

Globe-frogs clunked into one another getting out of the low-slung robot's way.

There were some brightly coloured straw mats on the floor, most of which was given over to low-slung comfortable looking rattan chairs and settees, each with a low table beside it.

The squat, low-slung tractor that took up nearly all the floor space inside would have started any time at the touch of a switch.

She looked out the window expecting to see Dane, but instead watched Trammell unfold his long form from his low-slung car.

Gray slid up from behind the wheel and swung one long leg over the door, then the other, stepping out of the low-slung car as if it were a child’s vehicle.

She unlocked the Viper and began to consider another problem: how was she going to get into the low-slung little rocket?

Alligators slipped off mud-banks into the water with little rippling splashes like low-slung dragons.

A long black shape churned out of the inner harbor and turned for the outer, its low-slung ram casting back twin waves and its stacks fuming.

Three-masted merchantmen for the most part, with a squadron of six paddle-wheel steam warships patrolling offshore like low-slung wolves.

The blue-white sputtering light of starshells made him slit his eyes at the dark motionless bulk of Sandoral's low-slung walls.