How to Use rock-bottom in a Sentence

rock-bottom

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Pulitzer said the rock-bottom price for Mar-a-Lago would be $300 million.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The bank had to invest a mountain of customer cash at a time of rock-bottom interest rates.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
  • More than a decade of rock-bottom interest rates has been a boon for tech companies.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Build-quality is often a bit lacking, but the price is rock-bottom.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
  • This means a trader who snapped up just $925 worth of the stock at the rock-bottom price would now see that investment worth over $3 million today.
    — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • As interest rates hit rock-bottom in the years that followed the crisis, many savers and investors turned to non-banks in search of higher returns.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Yet many rational people did so, urged on by years of rock-bottom interest rates.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Morningstar analysts give this ETF a gold rating because of rock-bottom fees and long-term steady returns.
    — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • During the pandemic, rock-bottom interest rates and a desire for more space drove a rapid and stunning rise in housing prices.
    — The Editors, National Review, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Demand for housing spiked in the pandemic, as mortgage rates hit rock-bottom lows and many folks sought more space for remote work or moved due to health concerns.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • That won’t make the hangover from rock-bottom interest rates any easier for some music stocks.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2023
  • In an economy with sustained vigor, the rock-bottom interest rates that prevailed during the 2010s might prove too low.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The problem is that some landlords secured mortgages on buy-to-let schemes at rock-bottom interest rates—but that pattern has since reversed.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 6 Dec. 2023
  • According to Manziel, rock-bottom began when Cleveland released him in March 2016.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Now Amtrak has extended those same rock-bottom overnight prices to the upper half of the Northeast Corridor, with even more departure times.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The two sides are clashing over how to divide carriers’ pandemic-era profits in a market that’s returned to rock-bottom freight rates.
    — Laura Curtis, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
  • Her reminder to other people going through a rock-bottom scenario?
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • This time, tough loan underwriting standards are the norm even with rock-bottom interest rates, experts say.
    — USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • Part of that mission is a promise not to take advantage of anyone who doesn’t understand the true value of their home, even as franchisees pursue rock-bottom prices.
    — Propublica, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
  • Increasingly, homeowners chose not to sell and give up their rock-bottom mortgages.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • While more homes typically hit the market in the spring, many homeowners that have locked in a mortgage rate well below where rates are today may opt to stay put rather than give up their rock-bottom rates.
    — Alex Veiga, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Blessed with rich deposits of rare earths, the country cornered the market by mining the metals more cheaply (mainly by paying workers low wages) and selling them at rock-bottom prices.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Another kind of investor prefers the slower, steadier race of diversified holdings and rock-bottom fees over a long-term time horizon.
    — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Temu quickly captured a global customer-base thanks to its rock-bottom prices and gamified elements.
    — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
  • There’s no love lost for the gig economy as a whole, which seems to exist solely to humiliate folks already below a rock-bottom financial status.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • These drugs have razor-thin to non-existent profit margins, driven by middle managers who have, in recent years, pushed down wholesale prices to rock-bottom levels.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The company could demand rock-bottom prices, aided by the implicit threat that if one factory balked, another could be summoned from inside the same waiting room.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • That’s true in this Midwestern manufacturing town overflowing with well-paying jobs, rock-bottom unemployment and some of the lowest gas, food and housing prices in the nation.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Currently the valuation is so rock-bottom—below seven times earnings, well below historic norms—that downside has already been well-baked into the share price.
    — Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Decades of deflation and rock-bottom interest rates at banks have encouraged Japanese households to keep relatively large amounts of their savings in cash.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
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rock bottom

2 of 2 noun
  • Their marriage has hit rock bottom.
  • After years of heavy drug use, she has finally reached rock bottom.
  • The Oscars are at rock bottom in the eyes of the public.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
  • At the end of July, the White House was at rock bottom.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The feelings went from the highest of highs to rock bottom.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
  • And, no, rock bottom flight deals right now don’t count.
    — refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Then there are teams that have hit rock bottom like UAB.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 28 Jan. 2020
  • As George Will writes, there is no rock bottom with Trump.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 3 June 2020
  • In 2018, Rashad moved back to L.A. and nearly hit rock bottom.
    — Cydney Lee, Vulture, 30 July 2021
  • As for stocks, there are some signs that the market may have hit rock bottom.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • On that grave night in Green Bay, the Bears hit rock bottom and passed the point of no return on their way there.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Turns out the Longhorns were still drilling towards rock bottom.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Time will tell, but the Seminoles may not have even hit rock bottom yet.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2021
  • But by this March, the 29-year-old man from Rhode Island had hit rock bottom.
    — NBC News, 15 May 2021
  • But there were many challenges that led them to hit rock bottom.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024
  • And Drew got the job when Baylor appeared to hit rock bottom.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • But there's nowhere else to go from rock bottom except up.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • With the price of fuel at rock bottom, there's even less demand for EVs.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 May 2020
  • The current state of the US economy is far from rock bottom.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Wracked with guilt and regret, Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) hits rock bottom.
    — Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2020
  • By in his senior season, the Tide hit rock bottom at 0-10.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 May 2021
  • And that’s not only since the rock bottom of the pandemic, but even from the years before most of us owned a mask.
    — Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2022
  • After nearly a decade of false starts, the club hit rock bottom last week with a 4-0 loss at the hands of Brentford.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • This is known as hitting rock bottom and starting to dig.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 June 2018
  • As the song froths over, the nasty state of the national discourse comes to feel like a rock bottom—somewhere from which to launch.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
  • But selling off assets when prices are at—or near—rock bottom is rarely the right move.
    — Mia Taylor, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • By his senior season, the Tide hit rock bottom at 0-10.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Each one goes through tremendous hardships to the point of hitting rock bottom.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2020
  • That was rock bottom, morale in the program was gone, and many assumed Bruce Weber would be fired.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 30 Jan. 2018
  • In the late 1990s and early years of this century, their reputation hit rock bottom.
    — Edward Fishman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017

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