Nadir

//ˈneɪˌdɪɚ//

"Nadir" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Her career had hit its nadir. Little did she know that things would soon improve.

Inside yourself, outside yourself, you'll fall from the zenith to the nadir, for that was your destiny, your miserly destiny.

That was the nadir of the worst years of my life.

Have we reached the nadir yet?

I think we haven't yet reached the nadir.

Ziri saw Walid and Nadir fighting and rushed to break them apart.

Both Decadence and Aestheticism, as intellectual movements, have fallen into the nadir of oblivion, and the dust lies heavy upon them, but they left a little leaven to lighten the heavy inertness of correct and academic literature; and now Symbolism, a greater movement than either, is in the ascendant, giving another turn to the wheel, and to all who think deeply about such matters it seems as though Symbolist literature is to be the literature of the future.

[…] when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow […]

Near-synonym: dead

[…] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]

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In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.

The myth describes the dangerous moment of the nadir, the dead of winter, the moment when it is not known whether the world will be re-created and another cycle will bring on another spring.

Trust had reached a nadir.

The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.

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