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
• 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
• 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
• But for Pinto, superior affordability plus rock-bottom listings give the Midwest the edge.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• But prices started rising again this year as homeowners increasingly chose not to sell, unwilling to give up their rock-bottom mortgage rates on loans taken out before or during the pandemic.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• As Chinese consumers became thriftier in 2023 in the face of economic uncertainty, its formula of rock-bottom prices and frequent coupons and rewards caught fire with middle-class Chinese shoppers.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 15 Feb. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Most of the homes that hit rock bottom when the real estate bubble burst in 2008 were back to their pre-crash prices in less than a decade.
  — David Wieland, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• In what has already been a trying year for Michigan's offense, the unit hit rock bottom in the first half.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2020
• Despite these real challenges – and the constant refrain that the Caribbean nation has hit rock bottom – Haitians are adept at meeting crises head on.
  — Websder Corneille, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024
• After hitting rock bottom last season, Becher says fan interest is increasing, and ticket sales are up.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024