How to Use be/lie at the bottom of in a Sentence

be/lie at the bottom of

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  • This will be at the bottom of the page in the right corner.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 23 May 2022
  • The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline systems lie at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But add to that the mystery of where their bodies might lie at the bottom of the ocean.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
  • And if any man harm any of us, his soul — the only soul he’s got — had better be at the bottom of that ocean.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The gold is believed to be at the bottom of a well, nearly 200 feet under the castle, known as Hochberg Palace.
    Fox News, 3 June 2020
  • Thousands of American sailors would be dead, and $13 billion would lie at the bottom of the sea.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
  • Ruidiaz, Nani, Martinez, Hernandez and Higuain might be at the bottom of the list above.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The screen recorder will now be at the bottom of the options and appear as a solid dot surrounded by a circle.
    Stephanie Arredia, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The Arizona Cardinals might be at the bottom of their division, but don’t rule them out just yet.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The fact the two-row ute also isn’t the least expensive nor remotely refined seal its fate as a small SUV that should be at the bottom of your list.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 11 Jan. 2023
  • No one deserves to be at the bottom of someone else’s priority list.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 18 June 2022
  • Recharging your batteries might be at the bottom of your to-do list, despite how important rest is.
    Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022
  • While frontcountry criminals usually have the courtesy to break the law indoors, the ISB’s crime scenes may be at the bottom of a steep cliff or in the middle of a rushing river.
    Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2018
  • According to FactSet, the financials should be at the bottom of earnings growth rates, with consensus year-over-year earnings estimates showing a decline of -23.1% at quarter-end.
    Bill Stone, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • For one, the missile and its thermonuclear warheads would be at the bottom of lakes, and thus less secure from tampering, theft, and terrorism than if they were being stored inside a hardened concrete silo.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2022

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