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bottom-rung

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Example Sentences

I leaped and caught the bottom rung of a fire escape, pulled myself up until I could get a foothold.

You must come and help me to fix it, Isabella, and stand on the bottom rung while I climb to the window.

James Gilray was born in 1757, and, like Hogarth, commenced at the bottom rung of the ladder as a letter engraver.

He braced for a run and a jump to reach the piece of root that was the bottom rung of a natural ladder to liberty.

Nearly everyone who wrote to congratulate me used the same image: "You have now set your foot on the bottom rung of the ladder."

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bottom-rung, such as: lesser, secondary, bottom, junior, less, and lower.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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