How to Use low-grade in a Sentence

low-grade

adjective
Definition of low-gradenext
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  • The 40-year-old missed the start of the season with a low-grade teres major strain.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
  • High-grade cancer cells grow and spread more rapidly than low-grade ones.
    — Jenny McCoy, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The shots from that doorbell camera are low-grade grainy and the audio sounds stuffed with earwax.
    — Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Black men are also more likely to die from low-grade prostate cancer than other races.
    — Taayoo Murray, Essence, 7 June 2024
  • In fact, there are some companies out there that just want to make a quick buck off of people by selling low-grade products.
    — Carol Lee, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The kids started a game that soon turned into low-grade squabble, when, suddenly, an air-raid siren blared.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
  • And there is another cost advantage: The process can use cheap, low-grade iron ores that are widely available around the world.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But the show’s real source is the low-grade titillation of Fox’s hot-mess black series Empire.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2023
  • However, the flu usually also comes with low-grade fevers and body aches.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Symptoms can start like a common cold with fatigue, a low-grade fever, runny nose, sore throat or sneezing.
    — Keri Brenner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • In low-grade digital video, a group of women huddled against the cold around a stove celebrate Women’s Day with a good-natured sing-off.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 18 May 2024
  • There is instead a backdrop of low-grade chaos, funny in its Southern volatility.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024
  • For example, a low-grade fever is a body temperature above normal but not above or just barely above the fever threshold.
    — Leah Groth, Health, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Other symptoms include fatigue, coughing, swelling of the legs or feet, low-grade fever, shortness of breath and heart palpitations.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
  • Other symptoms include fatigue, coughing, swelling of the legs or feet, low-grade fever, shortness of breath, and heart palpitations.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 May 2024
  • Iran and Israel have traded missile and drone strikes, and Iranian proxies continue to wage low-grade war with Israel as the war in Gaza continues.
    — NPR, 20 May 2024
  • Early symptoms often resemble a common cold -- runny nose, cough and low-grade fever -- and typically last for one to two weeks.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 May 2024
  • Yet underlying all that gratitude was a low-grade anxiety: Would audiences and critics like the film, and would that be enough for a buyer to scoop it up and plan to distribute it?
    — Nicole Sperling Joel Barhamand, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Using over-the-counter anti-itch creams should not harm the skin because these products incorporate low-grade ingredients.
    — Danielle Zoellner, Verywell Health, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In 2000 a team of scientists (Franceschi et al.) coined the term inflammaging which refers to chronic, low-grade inflammation that develops with advanced age.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Posting cute little videos of dogs in need—the internet’s bread and butter, really—can draw some low-grade cyberbullying.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • For example, low-grade cancer cells more closely resemble normal cells than high-grade cancer cells.
    — Jenny McCoy, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Common norovirus symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea, body aches, headaches, and a low-grade fever.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 4 Mar. 2023
  • With the worldwide adoption of social media, more governments are getting involved in low-grade information warfare through the use of cyber troops.
    — Joan Donovan, TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers said that may be because repeated headers can cause sub-concussive injuries, which are low-grade injuries that don't lead to the symptoms of a concussion but can build up over time and cause problems later in life.
    — Dr. Alexander Garcia, ABC News, 20 July 2023
  • In skeeter syndrome, people can develop severe soreness, redness, itching, pain, or even a low-grade fever after a mosquito bite.
    — Emily Shiffer, Health, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That’s because the office didn’t have enough evidence that night that strong winds in the area were curling into low-grade tornadoes, called quasi-linear convective system tornadoes.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2024
  • The horror buff’s horror film, Jack Clayton’s ghost story goes beyond tropes to turn co-writer Truman Capote’s script into an esteemed film that, when watched today, shatters the low-grade reputation plaguing the genre.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
  • More irksome is the middling quality of the Malibu's interior, which heavily relies on low-grade plastics.
    — Greg S. Fink, Car and Driver, 8 June 2023
  • Perhaps as a way to keep costs down, Gordon’s films often were family affairs: His late wife, Flora, assisted him on the low-grade special effects, and their late daughter, Susan, acted in four of his features.
    — Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023

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