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

"The company has seldom paid a dividend, but not long since a rumor got about that a new shaft had bottomed on rich ore."

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Bindloss, Harold