low-lying land

Summer is hot and dry enough to turn low-lying lands on the island brown.

The district is mainly by low-lying land with small hills.

About 600 acres of low-lying land would be given back to the river, as wetlands.

Her huge body is hidden by some low-lying land.

While the wet low-lying land is described in the original story (pp.

Technical solutions like sea walls are available to protect low-lying lands.

Many delegates are from low-lying lands and find conditions here oppressive.

The headland and the neck of low-lying land together form a peninsula.

Because of the low-lying land, the rivers are prone to flooding particularly during the winter months.

This area again has very poor drainage, low-lying land, and fairly sandy soil.

The low-lying land behind the coast is protected by a large concrete embankment.

Those who live on the low-lying lands near the Indus are darker.

To the east the plateau gives way to the low-lying land of the Yakuts.

At the end of an hour, the cocoanut trees and the low-lying land were visible from the deck.

Those who had low-lying lands lost their crops entirely.

Huntington is made up out of mainly low-lying land, with the highest point in the village being only 64 feet above sea level.

In this low-lying land, the various roads crossed many small rivers and canals.

Flooding has occasionally affected low-lying land in the village.

It could refer to an area of flat, low-lying land in England:

The hills of the eastern part of the town give way to low-lying land towards the coast.

The North Course area required extensive fill since it was located on low-lying land.

A flash flood is very quick flooding of low-lying land, usually without prior warning.

Due to the large expanse of low-lying land, there was a great deal of sickness in the town.

Today the former sea and river channels are low-lying land, leaving the erstwhile island as high ground, but still retaining its name.

Coastal flooding occurs when normally dry, low-lying land is flooded by sea water.