Modifies a noun

• mist: Behind a screen of trees on the further bank rises a hill above low-lying mist.

• plain: Much of the country is taken up with a low-lying alluvial plain which covers about 75 % of the country.

• meadow: Fishbourne Meadows Orchid Fishbourne Meadows is an area of low-lying damp meadow next to the harbor at the top of Fishbourne channel.

• island: A few hundred meters offshore, a couple of low-lying islands form a natural harbor wall.

• land: Low cliffs give way to low-lying lands toward the east.

• basin: They occur throughout the UK in flat low-lying basins.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: The Dromore Lowlands is a relatively low-lying landscape to the south of the Kilwarlin Plateau.

• generally: Its generally low-lying landscape is interrupted only where it rises to a height of nearly five hundred feet at its very western end.

• very: Sutton Common lies in an area of very low-lying land with a high water table.

• fairly: A third possible example in a fairly low-lying location between the two sites was destroyed in the 19th century.

• so: At least 11 nuclear sites are so low-lying they could be drowned or damaged by rising seas, causing radioactive waste to leak.