Use "at bottom" in a sentence

1. Bait is placed at bottom in a bait bowl

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2. His calculation, therefore, though different in appearance, corresponds very nearly at bottom with that of Judge Hales

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3. As the social pyramid has its base at bottom and the top

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4. with its top at bottom

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5. These encouragements, although at bottom, perhaps, as I shall endeavour to show hereafter, altogether illusory, sufficiently demonstrate at least the good intention of the legislature to favour agriculture

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6. They then realized it was a nine-sided amphitheater, built on a scale that would dwarf the biggest giant, with an open and flat bottom, a nine-sided domed roof above, and a nine-sided stage raised six meters above the floor in the center

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7. Touch bag at bottom of stick

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8. They then realized it was a nine-sided amphitheater, built on a scale that would dwarf the biggest giant, with an open and flat bottom, a nine-sided domed roof above, and a nine-sided stage raised twenty feet above the floor in the center

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9. On the other side was a steep, barren slope that bottomed out onto sun-dried, mown grass flats, crossed by a stream flowing out of Sebastian’s forest

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10. When they had traveled a tail from the broken bridge the boat bottomed out

11. She was one of the lowest draft vehicles I’d ever seen, needing only 6 inches of water under her flat bottom

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12. the ramp and tested the flat bottom of the pit, ‘concrete!’

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13. hold of end of staff at bottom with the left hand,

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14. These shallow draft flat bottomed assault ships of four and a half thousand tons could steam at 10 knots and were capable of carrying several hundred men, vehicles and tanks

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15. For the great fleshy object, now just inches away, was the big, monstrously fat bottom of Hench, the slave-trader, clad for some inexplicable reason in nothing but a tiny pink cheese-wire thong

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16. with turtles sunbathing on a rock at bottom of picture

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17. Stream between Mei Li’s home and her father-in-law’s property, with turtles sunbathing on a rock at bottom of picture

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18. The flat bottom was on the American side when they arrived at the river

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19. No cramps now but that bottomless feeling that maybe I was pregnant less than an hour ago and am no longer carrying a child, Denny’s child

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20. extinction — and at bottom, their extinction is what they really fear

21. And sometimes, in moments of more extreme lassitude--for she was, like most unloved women, in most things at bottom listless and half-hearted--she wondered what the Kingdom of Heaven, if one did manage to get there after all the trouble, could possibly be like, crowded up with the battered

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22. He took for granted that people were at bottom good and noble, and the assumption went a long way towards making them so

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23. Was it really the neckties? Was it really the sponge? Wasn't it, at bottom, really the window?

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24. and then by some strange alchemy, deeming the knowledge garnered from that bottomless well as being finite and totally separate from that Infinity

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25. artfully prepare their resumes with different typefaces or paper stocks, but at bottom

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26. Bjorgolf stood at the flat bottom of the hollow known as the

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27. Add water to coat bottom of pan

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28. Use 2 teaspoons butter to thickly coat bottom and lightly coat sides of a 9-inch square or 7-by-11-inch baking pan

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29. After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed

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30. It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom

31. At bottom, perhaps, he suffered from it, for he was not a man of cowardly illusions, but he refused to discuss the ethical view with his wife

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32. But the “new era” commencing in 1927 involved at bottom the abandonment of the analytical approach; and while emphasis was still seemingly placed on facts and figures, these were manipulated by a sort of pseudo-analysis to support the delusions of the period

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33. The recurrent excesses of its advances and declines are due at bottom to the fact that, when values are determined chiefly by the outlook, the resultant judgments are not subject to any mathematical controls and are almost inevitably carried to extremes

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34. We repeat, in conclusion, the point made in our discussion of the theory of preferred stocks (page 188 on accompanying CD) that the contractual disadvantage of preferred shares is, at bottom, not so much a matter of inherent legal rights as it is of practical corporate procedure and of the investor’s own shortcomings

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35. At bottom, the investment business or bond department of Stock Exchange firms is perhaps more important to them as a badge of respectability than for the profits it yields

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36. The speculator who wants to reduce his risk by operating in convertible issues is likely to find his primary interest divided between the enterprise itself and the terms of the privilege, and he will probably be uncertain in his own mind as to whether he is at bottom a stockholder or a bondholder

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37. Considering the 1927–1929 period we observe that since the trend-of-earnings theory was at bottom only a pretext to excuse rank speculation under the guise of “investment,” the profit-mad public was quite willing to accept the flimsiest evidence of the existence of a favorable trend

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38. And whether the multiplier should be ten or fifteen or thirty would seem at bottom a matter of purely arbitrary choice

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39. The situation is worsened by the aforementioned fact that, at bottom, the public has a real aversion to the very kind of small issue that it bought so readily in its careless moments

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40. Since the tests are at bottom arbitrary, there is no way to determine precisely the most suitable criteria

41. At bottom, this is the reason for the wide diversification practiced by the investment funds

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42. Thus this matter of choosing the “best” stocks is at bottom a highly controversial one

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43. The year 2004 was a downward biased trading range that bottomed in late summer and rallied for the rest of the year

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44. "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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45. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement

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46. I am not a bad woman at bottom

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47. What! because it would have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and all that for the sake of an old wretch of an applethief who, most assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, and

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48. At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred

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49. It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we left on the road, entered the porte-cochere of the Hotel de la Poste in Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was not sorry

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50. The old bourgeois, thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, saying: "The greatest families are forced into it

51. At bottom, the man is the same

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52. At bottom, as we have said, M

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53. All newspapers are pests; all, even the Drapeau Blanc! At bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin

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54. all the languages of Europe, and, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to chimeras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling

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55. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather

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56. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form

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57. At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not extremely serious

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58. He still stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress

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59. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband still more dearly

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60. (Value averaging works just as well in reverse; if you are retired and in the distribution phase of your financial life cycle, you will be selling more of your assets at market tops than at bottoms, stretching your assets further

61. Yet utility stocks in the worst quintiles aren’t the catastrophic investments that bottom quintile stocks from the other sectors prove to be

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62. The first lesson [post-financial crisis] was that bottoms-up fundamental company analysis still matters quite a bit and that ignoring the experience of Graham, Buffett and our 35 years to become macro-driven “generals fighting the last war” would have probably left us on the sidelines at exactly the wrong time

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63. Many of our peers seem to have concluded that bottom–up investing isn't good enough anymore, an opinion we don't share because the assumption is that it's easy to have a nonconsensus macro view that adds value

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64. On the other hand, I would not have given her the name which I have the honour to bear”—he gave a little stately cough—“had I not thought her to be at bottom a noble woman

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65. I went a-chestnutting there in the fall, on windy days, when the nuts were dropping into the water and were washed to my feet; and one day, as I crept along its sedgy shore, the fresh spray blowing in my face, I came upon the mouldering wreck of a boat, the sides gone, and hardly more than the impression of its flat bottom left amid the rushes; yet its model was sharply defined, as if it were a large decayed pad, with its veins

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66. For at bottom—so he told me—he was actuated by a profound desire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to make his people still happier than they were; and more than that, still better than they were

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67. But while hapless Dough-Boy was by nature dull and torpid in his intellects, Pip, though over tender-hearted, was at bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness peculiar to his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer relish than any other race

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68. For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction

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69. “You have to deal with a man of honor, a man of the highest honor; above all—don't lose sight of it—a man who's done a lot of nasty things, but has always been, and still is, honorable at bottom, in his inner being

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70. At bottom I believe he was a kind man

71. (But that he is an ‘idiot,’ at bottom there can be no doubt whatever

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