How to Use rock-bottom in a Sentence

rock-bottom

1 of 2 adjective

• 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
• The rock-bottom prices of retailers Shein and Temu could be no more if the Biden administration clamps down on their use of a loophole to avoid paying tariffs.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The pandemic housing boom, fueled by a newfound ability to work from anywhere and rock-bottom mortgage rates, sent home values up everywhere, and did so much more rapidly than what’s typical.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
• The Chinese government has been subsidizing its automakers with billions of dollars a year in direct contributions so those companies can sell their cars abroad at rock-bottom prices.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 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 | [e-mail], al, 28 Jan. 2020
• As George Will writes, there is no rock bottom with Trump.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], 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
• To hit rock bottom and wake up early the next day to start training again.
  — Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], al, 27 Apr. 2020
• The crash was Skye's rock bottom, forcing her to get sober and attempt to cope with her all-consuming grief and guilt.
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
• The series was renewed in February 2022 even before the airing of its chaotic-yet-pivotal finale that sees Rue hitting rock bottom.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024