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Collocations for low - noun

ADJECTIVE

all-time, new, record
The pound has hit a new low against the dollar.

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VERB + low

fall to, hit, reach, sink to

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PREPOSITION

at a low
Morale is at an all-time low.

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PHRASES

highs and lows
He had experienced all the highs and lows of an actor's life.

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Collocations for low - verb

Low is used with these nouns as the subject:
cow

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Collocations for low - adj.

1. not far above the ground

VERBS

be, look, seem
The windows look very low to me.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
The river was extremely low for winter.
a little, slightly, etc.

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2. small in degree/amount

VERBS

be, look, seem
become, get, run
Our stocks of food were getting low.
Supplies ran low.
remain, stay
keep sth
The government wants to keep taxes low.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
The failure rate is extremely low.
comparatively, moderately, reasonably, relatively
a little, slightly, etc.
dangerously
His blood pressure was dangerously low.
abnormally, unusually
artificially
naturally
ridiculously
historically
historically low marriage statistics

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PREPOSITION

in
This dish is very low in fat.

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Low is used with these nouns:
ability, abundance, altitude, amount, attendance, ball, baritone, beam, bid, blood pressure, bow, bracket, branch, budget, building, buzz, caste, casualty, category, ceiling, chair, cholesterol, chuckle, church, cliff, cloud, comedy, concentration, confidence, consumption, content, correlation, cost, count, cross, cry, cunning, cupboard, current, degree, demand, density, diversity, division, dosage, dose, drone, duty, earnings, efficiency, employment, end, enrolment, esteem, estimate, expectation, expenditure, expense, fare, fee, fence, figure, fitness, frequency, gear, grade, gravity, groan, ground, growl, growth, grunt, gurgle, heat, hedge, heel, height, hill, hiss, hum, humidity, incidence, income, index, inflation, intake, intellect, intelligence, intensity, investment, key, latitude, laugh, level, lighting, maintenance, margin, mark, mileage, moan, moral, morale, mortality, motivation, mound, mountain, murmur, neck, noise, note, number, occurrence, odds, offer, opinion, orbit, output, oven, pass, pay, percentage, performance, pitch, point, post, premium, pressure, prestige, price, priority, probability, productivity, profile, profit, profitability, proportion, quality, rainfall, rank, rate, rating, ratio, reading, regard, register, relief, rent, reserve, resistance, resolution, return, rev, risk, river, road, roar, room, rumble, salary, score, scrub, season, sensitivity, setting, shelf, shot, shrub, sound, speed, speed limit, spending, stake, standard, standing, status, stock, stress, sun, table, target, tariff, tax, taxation, technology, temperature, threshold, tide, tolerance, tone, total, tree, turnout, turnover, unemployment, usage, utility, valuation, value, variability, velocity, vibration, visibility, voice, voltage, volume, wage, waist, waistline, wall, weight, whisper, whistle, yield

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Collocations for low - adv.

Low is used with these adjectives:
overhead

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Low is used with these verbs:
bow, crouch, fly, rank, sink, skim, swoop

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