How to Use hit bottom in a Sentence

hit bottom

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• The boat descended in a churning brown trough and hit bottom, then popped up, throwing the passengers to the front.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• The minor cut is the first since oil markets hit bottom during the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 Sep. 2022
• The Colts trail at halftime for the 11th straight game, dating to last season, and their offense has hit bottom.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Nov. 2022
• What this means is that the Cage character has to hit bottom to purge himself, to come out the other side of his pain and his yuppie dream.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2024
• There are different diving crankbaits for various depths—but the objective is to get the bait down in the water column to hit bottom.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 9 Mar. 2021
• In time he was caught red-handed with a flat of night crawlers and hit bottom when he was photographed, grinning, with a stringer of walleyes in each hand, a minnow bucket at his feet.
  — Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• The stock fell 5% on an up day for the market, another blow to Intel shareholders who had hoped—finally—that things might have hit bottom.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
• Martha Stewart's career hit bottom after she was found guilty of obstruction and conspiracy charges related to a stock sale and sent to prison.
  — Ana Calderone, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
• That spike was followed by a major sell-off that hit bottom in late September, when DJT stock scraped below $12 a share.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2024
• The latest figures, which defied forecasts of millions of additional job losses, suggest the labor market has hit bottom and is now rallying.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 5 June 2020
• These cuts hit bottom in September 2020, about 30% above the 2020 starting point.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
• Earlier this month Wilson issued another pessimistic outlook, warning the stock market would hit bottom this spring before rebounding during the second half of the year.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
• But Ruth Handler hit bottom in the 1970s, first losing a breast to cancer and then losing Mattel in a corporate shakeup.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
• Investing pioneer Rob Arnott, the founder of Research Affiliates, agrees the market hasn’t yet hit bottom.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• Still, analysts at JPMorgan suggested in a research note on Monday that the market may have hit bottom after last week’s selloff.
  — Caitlin McCabe and Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• The passing of the government bailout packages soon after the collapse stabilized the stock markets, which hit bottom in March 2009 and then embarked on the longest bull market in its history.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• According to firms like Zillow and CoreLogic, national house prices have already hit bottom and are projected to continue rising over the next 12 months.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 16 July 2023
• The cuts also come as the video advertising market remains challenged, with essentially all major tech and TV companies reporting slower ad spend, although a few have been hopeful that the ad market has hit bottom.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023
• That introduction triggered an evisceration of analog recordings that hit bottom in 2006 when 900,000 vinyl albums were sold, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
  — Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025