BOTTOM in a Sentence

Learn BOTTOM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
282 example sentences for BOTTOM, such as:
1. I am not a bad woman at bottom.
2. I am square on the bottom, I am.
3. The best fish swim near the bottom.
4. Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
5. Better spare at brim than at bottom.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BOTTOM
bottom
 n.  low-lying alluvial land near a river
 n.  a depression forming the ground under a body of water
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At length one let off a broadside, so low and so truly aimed, that the other sank to the bottom.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
2  At the bottom of his heart Candide had no wish to marry Cunegonde.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXX
3  Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was exquisitely clean from top to bottom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
4  I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
5  I am square on the bottom, I am.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
6  Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side at bottom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
7  The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
8  At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
9  I am not a bad woman at bottom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
10  At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to Arras.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
11  He listened to her words as one listens to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind absorbed in reflection which had no bottom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY
12  A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through the embankment of the road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
13  The wall at the bottom has a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
14  The wall on the right is of brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
15  The slope there is so steep that the English cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, which was the centre of the combat.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
Example Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  Always taking out the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.
2  She knocked the bottom out of our argument.
3  Better spare at brim than at bottom.
4  He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
5  When the bag is folded flat, the bag bottom overlaps one side of the bag.
6  The bottom line, he said, is that altruism may rely on a basic understanding that others hae motiations and actions that may be similar to our own.
7  The wind blew through gaps at the top and bottom of the door.
8  A box has a top, a bottom and four sides.
9  It is because of heart bottom touch that empty, so he just so painful.
10  Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
11  The sunken sailing-boat was a glimmer of white on the bottom.
12  In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.
13  The best fish swim near the bottom.
14  Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind.
15  The ship was buried, beyond retrieval, at the bottom of the sea.