How to Use hit bottom in a Sentence

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  • The key question now is: When will chip stocks hit bottom?
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 23 Dec. 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
  • 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 age-old question of when the stock market will hit bottom amid rampant volatility might have a new answer: more than once.
    Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The minor cut is the first since oil markets hit bottom during the coronavirus pandemic.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 6 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Shares in the major cruise line companies started to decline in February as the virus spread, and hit bottom in mid-March when the U.S. economy effectively shut down.
    Matt Ott, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The contentious start with the Biden administration has surprised officials in China, who thought that relations had hit bottom during the last year of the Trump presidency and thus could only improve with the new president.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • The contentious start with the Biden administration has surprised officials in China, who thought relations had hit bottom during the last year of the Trump presidency and thus could only improve with the new president.
    New York Times, 26 July 2021
  • 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
  • The considerations are also financial: Carbon prices, decarbonization programs and extreme weather events could all hit bottom lines, while offenders could be forced to sell troublesome businesses at low valuations.
    Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020

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