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
  • 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
  • Something this extraordinarily comprehensive doesn’t come at a cost that’s accessible to someone who really just wants the basic hits — the rock-bottom sale price is around $400.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Aug. 2023
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rock bottom

2 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But selling off assets when prices are at—or near—rock bottom is rarely the right move.
    — Mia Taylor, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Each one goes through tremendous hardships to the point of hitting rock bottom.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Only three of the current Suns players were here when the franchise was at rock bottom.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2021
  • In the middle of the pitch-black woods of Zephyrhills on a summer night in 2018, Laura Henderson hit rock bottom.
    — Natalia Jaramillo, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Through that season, there was a point in that season where Butler was 14-9 and had lost at Youngstown State and kind of hit rock bottom.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Just a rock bottom moment on a day James Burnip continued to punt well.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Alcoholism led to spousal abuse and the proverbial descent to rock bottom.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 11 May 2022
  • The Reds must hope this season represents a rock bottom.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2022
  • This was rock bottom in a season that keeps inventing new lows.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2022
  • For a decade, rock bottom mortgage rates helped home buyers steadily bid up the cost of housing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Poor little Tess, who is hiding the backseat of Kevin’s car, has to watch her uncle hit rock bottom.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 May 2021
  • As his helicopter floated into the sky, Nixon seemed to be fleeing a United States that had hit rock bottom.
    — John A. Lawrence, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Viral TikTok creator Becca Moore found an unlikely friend at rock bottom.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024

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