How to Use nadir in a Sentence

nadir

noun
  • The relationship between the two countries reached a nadir in the 1920s.
  • And yet the nadir has still not been reached.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • Sunday night was worse, a new nadir.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 May 2026
  • Surely, the genre has reached its nadir.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Those two road trip outings were the nadir of that.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • That probably felt like the nadir.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Wednesday night marked his season’s nadir.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Brookdale shares were down more than 75% at the nadir of the crisis.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • In this telling, Johnson was supposed to have hit his nadir over the past few weeks.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • This hacky-ass moment of wannabe levity is the nadir of the series to this point.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 31 July 2024
  • Even at the nadir of his slump, the team decided against a change at the position.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • As the roster turned over after that nadir of a season, Sam made sure guys hung out.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That was probably, for me, the nadir of our attempts to put the movie out in a way that it would have been seen.
    — Rich Brownstein, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The most fun scene to play was the scene that, to me, is sort of the nadir of my narcissistic descent.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Dvorský was 8 years old when Halák and the Slovaks reached their nadir in Sochi.
    — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The Nasdaq is up more than 20% since its March 30 nadir.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • In last week's 38-21 loss at Indiana, the run game reached its nadir.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2020
  • In the early 2000s, that age-old impulse reached a toxic nadir.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 July 2021
  • Mel Gibson went from the heights of the Hollywood stratosphere to its nadir.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 24 July 2018
  • But the group hit a nadir with 1999’s Risk, which fans pegged as a bid for hard-rock mainstream copout.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The third flight of the year, the program’s ninth overall, represented a nadir for the program.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • The series marked the nadir of James’ career and the peak of Nowitzki’s.
    — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The run-up to the crucial vote has seen some of the district's darkest days, the nadir of which may have been May 4.
    — Bethany Barnes | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 12 May 2017
  • The wretched 1-1 draw against 10-man Sunderland was the nadir.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Tang’s last three seasons have not matched his first, a series of diminishing returns that are reaching their nadir this year.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The gauge is close to a 22-month high, up 47 percent from a nadir reached in February last year.
    — Sofia Horta E Costa, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
  • At the nadir, Wang owed the firm $126 million, according to Schwab.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Perhaps the nadir of this period was when track repairs on my train line meant six hours commuting only to work in my office for four.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Our Back-to-Normal index hit its nadir of just 59% on April 17.
    — Mark Zandi For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Jesse comes in and introduces the nadir of the franchise with this KFC pool party where no one gets in the pool.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2024

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