had bottomed
- past perfect of bottom.
Example Sentences
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At last, after an up-and-down start to the season that had bottomed out with a four-game losing streak, the team had found some semblance of steadiness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2021
By his late 20s, it seemed like his life had bottomed out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
They bought a condo in the Fontainebleau, a resort in Miami Beach, in 2010, after prices had bottomed out, paying 60 percent less than it had sold for two years earlier.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
The temperature of the court had bottomed out at 175 degrees Kelvin.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2018
Thirteen trial wells had been put down on the holding, all of which had bottomed on a drift of salt water.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
