How to Use low point in a Sentence

low point

noun
  • The 7-2 loss to the Devils was another low point for the Sharks this season.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And the scoring bomb to Hill wasn’t his only low point Sunday.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • How, though, would coach Brady Hoke react to what some deem as a program low point in the last decade and a half?
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Both categories were at a low point since at least 2017.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
  • If the first half of 2023 was a low point in the news business’s free fall, the second half is shaping up to be the era of the autopsy.
    Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
  • The Celtics hit a low point after losing to the last-place Rockets Monday night.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023
  • That’s about 20% lower than this time last year, but more than three times more than the low point from this summer.
    Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • As a result, sales of existing homes are at a 13-year low point.
    Richard McGahey, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • One simple way to measure the wavelength is to measure the distance from one high point to the next—or from one low point to the next.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Moreover, 2016 marked a low point in the public’s trust in journalism.
    Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
  • The surplus water inevitably moves toward the low point, the old Tulare Lake.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • How that other film stepped up… A truly egregious low point for the Oscars.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Tokyo added red tape on those exports in July 2019 when relations with Seoul were at a low point.
    Alastair Gale, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Greene wanted to be at the forefront of creating a winning culture during the low point of the Reds’ rebuild.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But [there’s] the point in the movie when Phonte does not call Pooh in the hospital, which is the low point, emotionally, of their relationship.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The group who returned 2,443 days later took a low point from seven days earlier and grabbed a shovel.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Longtime residents point to the Charles Stuart case in 1989 as the low point in trust between the community and the police force.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
  • Baku is there as well, and his mere presence at this low point in the investigation is enough to spark a confrontation.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The severity of that low point is all the more startling because right now, Domingo couldn’t be riding higher.
    Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • That represents the perigee—or low point—in the moon's elliptical orbit around our planet.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
  • These people do contact tracing and outreach, and are a key piece of trying to stop the spread of syphilis, which reached a low point in the U.S. in 2000 but has increased almost every year since.
    Kenya Hunter, Fortune Well, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Lake Powell has risen 52 feet since hitting a low point in February of this year, while Mead has risen nearly 23 feet since November.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Since a low point in 1996, voter turnout in U.S. elections has generally risen as the differences between the two parties have grown.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The low point for Carter came when Iran's revolutionary leaders took U.S. diplomats hostage.
    CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Zayn’s starting point for his fourth studio album Room Under the Stairs was an emotional low point.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
  • On Wednesday, as the spacecraft approached the low point of the orbit, moving at more than 3,700 miles per hour, a preprogrammed sequence of maneuvers commenced.
    Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The level of continuing claims is somewhat elevated from a low point of about 1.3 million last spring.
    Bryan Mena, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • At a low point in November, newly pending listings were down 38% compared to one year earlier.
    Brenda Richardson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Upping the occasion’s emotional quotient was the fact that during a very low point in his career, Wilson was an addict living on the streets of Hollywood.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Staff morale has hit a low point, with Social Security falling to last place in 2022 among large agencies in the annual survey of best places to work in the federal government.
    Erin Cox, Washington Post, 26 July 2023

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