A student who tells you his grades have hit bottom is saying he has not done well in school.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

A ship that sailed from New York to San Francisco had to travel around the bottom of South America.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

They have an opening at the bottom for the fire and a place on top to put a pot.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

When the roots show through the holes in the bottom of the pot, transplant each seedling into a twelve-centimeter pot.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

They want to be sure that he is not dealing off the bottom of the stack of cards.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Iraq moved up two places this year and is now ranked fourth from the bottom, along with Sudan.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

I could tell from the surrounding mountains that we were on the bottom of a long dead sea.

VOA: special.2011.07.23

Alina from China sent us this proverb: "He who would climb a ladder must begin at the bottom."

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He said, "We continue to expect economic activity to bottom out, then to turn up later this year."

VOA: special.2009.05.08

If the price of shares of a stock hits bottom that might be the time to buy it.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

The banker produced some papers and told average Joe to sign his John Hancock at the bottom.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

He examined fossilized remains in a piece of gypsum found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

VOA: special.2010.05.25