How to Use rock-bottom in a Sentence

rock-bottom

1 of 2 adjective
  • Yields in China are rock-bottom and need to rise.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • For example, some investors linger in cash while waiting for rock-bottom prices.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Spirit Airlines has been a symbol for rock-bottom fares.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
  • 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
  • Yet many rational people did so, urged on by years of rock-bottom interest rates.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Sales at Walmart, for example, have grown as more shoppers seek out its rock-bottom prices.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Morant was supposed to be next to go, but demand for him was so rock-bottom that Memphis couldn’t find a new home for him.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Have the Kansas City Royals hit rock-bottom?
    — Kansas City Star, 27 June 2026
  • Her reminder to other people going through a rock-bottom scenario?
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
  • That won’t make the hangover from rock-bottom interest rates any easier for some music stocks.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Young workers earning rock-bottom salaries are known to job-hop in an effort to quickly climb the corporate totem pole.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no major crackup, no rock-bottom reckoning.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The number of people filing jobless claims has remained at rock-bottom levels.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Pulitzer said the rock-bottom price for Mar-a-Lago would be $300 million.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Increasingly, homeowners chose not to sell and give up their rock-bottom mortgages.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The bashful display marks rock-bottom for Gabbard’s career.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
  • This time, tough loan underwriting standards are the norm even with rock-bottom interest rates, experts say.
    — USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • The very irony is that just miles away, immigrant farm workers toil for rock-bottom wages to keep our state’s agriculture industry afloat.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
  • And rock-bottom confidence is hitting some professions more than others.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even with rock-bottom prices, only those with plenty of cash and an unshakable belief in the area can stomach the risk of waiting out a comeback.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Of course, hoarding cash while waiting for rock-bottom prices before entering the market can also be risky, experts say.
    — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The Wizards acquired him for the relatively rock-bottom price of a pair of future second-round picks.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Some investors see its rock-bottom valuation and 20% year-to-date share-price drop as a harbinger of what awaits its peers.
    — Bernard Goyder, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Though shipping times could be long, consumers flocked to the site because the rock-bottom prices on clothing, electronics and home goods made the extra wait worth it.
    — Gabrielle Fonrouge,annie Palmer, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025

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 movie presents the rock bottom in full.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But rock bottom might get a new group of fans in the door.
    — Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • For Matt, that was rock bottom.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
  • That has to be rock bottom for that offense.
    — Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But there were many challenges that led them to hit rock bottom.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Things can only go up from rock bottom, right?
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The yuppies-to-be in the film are spooked by the sight of rock bottom.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • This is pretty much rock bottom.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
  • As for stocks, there are some signs that the market may have hit rock bottom.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • Maybe this was rock bottom for the Clippers?
    — Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
  • There appears to be no such thing as rock bottom for the Mets.
    — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Turns out the Longhorns were still drilling towards rock bottom.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
  • To hit rock bottom and wake up early the next day to start training again.
    — Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Time will tell, but the Seminoles may not have even hit rock bottom yet.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2021
  • But selling off assets when prices are at—or near—rock bottom is rarely the right move.
    — Mia Taylor, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • So my decision to quit drinking was not on a rock bottom day.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Each one goes through tremendous hardships to the point of hitting rock bottom.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Because this mythical man was about to hit rock bottom.
    — Lauren Ashley Bishop, Variety, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Is this finally rock bottom for the Sox?
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • My flag wasn’t just planted at rock bottom; it was cemented.
    — Hunter Lacey, Allure, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And Drew got the job when Baylor appeared to hit rock bottom.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Now the acceptance rates at Ivy League schools are near rock bottom.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Excuses are wearing thin, and trust in Slot has hit rock bottom.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • Ah, now, the dumbing down of America is about to reach rock bottom.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The worst part is that moment wasn’t even rock bottom for the Canucks in that period.
    — Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • With the price of fuel at rock bottom, there's even less demand for EVs.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 May 2020
  • Safdie tracks Kerr’s trajectory from the heights of fame to rock bottom and back again.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 3 Aug. 2022

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