How to Use down-low in a Sentence

down-low

noun
  • Consider keeping plans on the down-low for a few more days.
    Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Really a drug dealer on the down-low.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Wiener, in his on-the-down-low shadow campaign, has raised a bit over $1 million, not nearly enough.
    Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Some do it on the down-low while others use nonnative and albino snakes, like Molieri does.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2026
  • More recently, Austin has kept his relationship on the down-low.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • The attraction is palpable, even if the need to keep it on the down-low is inherently understood.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
  • Here are five takeaways about how the venue kept the concert on the down-low, what Kelly wore and the odds of an MGK tour.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Gasseau, the Bruins’ seventh-round pick in 2021, managed down-low coverage in the defensive zone.
    Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Silky shooter Sonia Citron and down-low force Kiki Iriafen each earned All-Rookie honors last year.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Andrew Peeke and Hampus Lindholm duplicated down-low coverage on Ohgren.
    Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • George similarly kept her third pregnancy on the down-low before revealing Lyor's birth with a March 2024 Instagram snap of the newborn's foot.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
  • The Christophers introduces itself as another indie spin on a familiar conceit, then heads in a much more empathetic direction than Soderbergh’s usual portrayal of burglars on the down-low.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The owner of the SPARC cannabis company began growing medical marijuana on the down-low in 1998.
    John Ramos, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026

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