How to Use nadir in a Sentence

nadir

noun
  • The relationship between the two countries reached a nadir in the 1920s.
  • One loss to the Warriors in March may have been the nadir.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 May 2021
  • From peak to nadir last month, BTC fell as much as 47.3%.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • Brookdale shares were down more than 75% at the nadir of the crisis.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • The series marked the nadir of James’ career and the peak of Nowitzki’s.
    Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The nadir was the Iraq oil-for-food programme in the 1990s, administered by the UN.
    The Economist, 5 May 2018
  • The point is: This should be the nadir for the organization and its fans.
    Charles Curtis, For The Win, 5 Jan. 2018
  • In this telling, Johnson was supposed to have hit his nadir over the past few weeks.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • At the nadir, Wang owed the firm $126 million, according to Schwab.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • But oil prices are still at twice their early 2016 nadir.
    Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Even at the nadir of his slump, the team decided against a change at the position.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In last week's 38-21 loss at Indiana, the run game reached its nadir.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The Grizzlies’ 51 points in the third marked a nadir for a defense that has trended among the NBA’s worst for much of the last two months.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The guru’s fortunes may not have hit their nadir, though.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This franchise completely cratered in the early 2000s and this team marked the nadir.
    Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Street views that period as the nadir of his NFL career.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
  • And this was, though not surprising in the context of Carlson’s show, a new nadir.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Even at Bjelica’s nadir, Kerr didn’t lose faith in him.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Now he’s lost that many in the past month, the nadir so far of an otherwise sterling career.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The City Beautiful had among the lowest prices in the state, but the nadir of prices was found in Punta Gorda at about $2.88.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • At some point, this will reach a nadir, and then there’s only one direction to go.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Fast forward to 1980, to the nadir of Jimmy Carter’s one term as President.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Russia and the United States are at a nadir in their relations.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2021
  • But that shocking nadir ended up acting as the storm before the calm.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 June 2021

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