How to Use low-grade in a Sentence

low-grade

adjective
  • The result was a low-grade labrum tear in her left shoulder.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Simply put, most men will not die from low-grade prostate cancer.
    Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
  • High-grade cancer cells grow and spread more rapidly than low-grade ones.
    Jenny McCoy, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Or the low-grade brain damage humming in the zeitgeist.
    Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • That, plus the choice of pants rather than a skirt is giving Seyfried a low-grade punk vibe.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The toddler was diagnosed with a low-grade glioma.
    Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • The room became a low-grade surveillance game.
    Adam Howard, Time, 10 June 2026
  • Some kids may have only low-grade fever and mild swelling, and others may have no symptoms at all.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Black men are also more likely to die from low-grade prostate cancer than other races.
    Taayoo Murray, Essence, 7 June 2024
  • The shots from that doorbell camera are low-grade grainy and the audio sounds stuffed with earwax.
    Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
  • This type of surgery is used for a low-grade tumor that has started to invade the wall of the bladder.
    Steffini Stalos, Health, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The infection starts with symptoms like a runny nose, a low-grade fever and a tickly cough.
    Sam Tupper, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • However, the flu usually also comes with low-grade fevers and body aches.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Common side effects include body aches and low-grade fever, the doctor noted.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Boone said that an initial fluoroscope, a low-grade X-ray, came back clean.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
  • Less common symptoms include a low-grade fever, vomiting, headache and body aches.
    Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In moments of pressure or low-grade exhaustion, your mind floods you with noise and distractions.
    Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • The latter is a low-grade inflammation that develops with age.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Sensing her low-grade panic, my friends moved a few seats down at the bar, leaving me and Janine to get into it.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Other signs include vomiting, body aches, headache, low-grade fever and other flu-like symptoms.
    Elise Haulund, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • Cyanidation is a process used to extract gold from low-grade ore by dissolving it in a dilute cyanide solution.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • For everyday anxiety or low-grade stress, a slow body scan before bed is a reasonable place to start tonight.
    Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
  • Many are mass-produced using low-grade materials.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Vientos has seen his playing time dwindle, first with the injury (a low-grade hamstring strain) and then with the slump since his return.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Some of the tumors on my abdominal wall and on my ovary had come back as stage 3 low-grade ovarian cancer.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There is instead a backdrop of low-grade chaos, funny in its Southern volatility.
    Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2024

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