bottom-of-the-line
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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We also didn’t want to buy the bottom-of-the-line $30 stroller made of two metal sticks and a nylon sling.
From The Guardian
Eager to fit in, I begged for a pair of hockey skates—bottom-of-the-line Bauer Black Panthers—and in the winter of 1977-78, one of the coldest in Iowa history, made my way to Lake Cona Toma.
The trend enables a "large number of new, young chefs who can come to market less expensively," says Zagat, presenting this calculus: A food truck in New York may run $30,000 to purchase and outfit, while a "bottom-of-the-line" brick-and-mortar restaurant would cost at least $250,000 "and probably a lot more than that."
From US News
According to the Shriftman, the bottom-of-the-line fixed gear bikes retail from $800 to $1,000—putting them largely out of the price reach for most college students.
From Inc
The horrid device in question was a bottom-of-the-line Ericsson that looked as if it had been designed in Stalinist Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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