How to Use trough in a Sentence

trough

noun

• The economy is in a trough right now.
• Sen Joe Biden went back to the trough adding the over ~$50K.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• In that episode, the S&P 500 lost more than a third of its value from peak to trough.
  — Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
• The practice stopped in 2018, two years after Raynor had been in the trough.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
• The trough will also bring rain to the San Joaquin Valley.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
• There was a carrot stew, a trough of gooey black beans.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• Another tip is to place the trough on a base of blocks.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2020
• Corresponds to the lowest part of the wave, or its trough.
  — Mandi Albright, ajc, 30 Aug. 2023
• The ranges are the high pressure ridge in the mid-Atlantic and the trough of low pressure pushed by the jet stream.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• The room swoops and shifts as, eyes closed, my body seems to ride a crest, down into a trough.
  — Peter Rock, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• These winds blow west to east, but the belt can shift north and south, forming ridges and troughs.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
• The prospect of a bailout of a scale without precedent has set off a rush to the fiscal trough.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2020
• The left side also features a wide trough for your thumb.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 10 June 2020
• Our warm start to the year is being driven by a big dip or trough in the jet stream along the U.S. West Coast.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
• That’s up from its mid-June trough, when the index was trading off more than 30% for the year.
  — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
• But if the trough stays mostly in the Willamette Valley the beaches will lose out on the heat and stay in the upper 60s to low 70s.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2023
• The boat lifts easily to each crest and slides down into the wide trough.
  — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
• In this pattern, cold air high in the troposphere, on the west side of the trough, converges and sinks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• Leadership is what moves change out of the trough and on to adoption.
  — Edward Tuorinsky, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• That’d take us, Goldman Sachs says, to a 6% peak-to-trough decline.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The Willamette Valley will begin to feel stronger north winds as the trough of high pressure builds in from the south.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2020
• The soft soil behaves like a liquid, sloshing back and forth between the troughs and peaks of the waves.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• Look what happened to Robinhood from its peak to its trough.
  — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 2 May 2022
• The effect will be enhanced this weekend by a weak trough that will pass to the north of San Diego.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2021
• The only exception was the second week of the month, when a low pressure trough formed in the West.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2020
• Make no mistake, my gun-shy little friend – the urinal trough is not for the faint of heart.
  — Stefan Krajisnik, The Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2021
• Enlarge / Farm cats drinking from a trough of milk from cows that were just milked.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
• There, in a manger — a feed trough for animals — Mary gives birth to the child who the faithful believe is the son of God.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• Horses in Bastop County, Tex., wait for the ice in their water trough to melt.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2021
• We’ve been promised profound value, and we’ve been warned of the trough of disillusionment.
  — Patrick (pj) Jean, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025