BOTTOM in a Sentence

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I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOTTOM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bottom
 n.  the lowest point or par
 a.  in the lowest position
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)
16  Bill signed on the bottom line with a flourish.
17  The fruit at the bottom of the box had been squashed.
18  He is at the bottom of the class.
19  At bottom, such an attitude is born not of concern for your welfare, but out of fear of losing you.
20  Some tea left at/in the bottom of your cup.
21  Draw a horizontal line across the bottom of the page.
22  The dirt on the bottom of the bath didn't encourage total immersion.
23  A cloud like a fluffy white crocodile basked at the bottom of the vast open fan of fading turquoise sky.
24  Britain came bottom on efforts to tackle pollution and global warming.
25  He took a knife and gouged a hole in the bottom of the boat.
26  The water drained out of the flowerpot through the hole in the bottom.
27  There is a hole in the bottom of the water tank,and the water has been leaking away.
28  The hole is so deep you can't see the bottom.
29  Let every tub stand on its own bottom.
30  The bottom line is that recycling isn't profitable.