How to Use trough in a Sentence

trough

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  • 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
  • The practice stopped in 2018, two years after Raynor had been in the trough.
    — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’d take us, Goldman Sachs says, to a 6% peak-to-trough decline.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The brass trough underneath stores about 0.5g of your favorite bud.
    — Brandt Ranj, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Britain hit its post-Omicron trough at the end of February.
    — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Any block shorter than the trough’s width will simply fall and be captured.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Rufus grained his horse through the bars of its stall, pouring oats from a tin scoop into a trough.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Any guesses on where the trough and ridge will be located?
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Tammy will be steered northeast ahead of a trough, or dip in the jet stream filled with cool air and low pressure.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Software knows when the plants, which sit in long, shallow troughs, need water.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Forget a rising tide that lifts all boats — a bigger trough feeds more mouths.
    — James M. Hohman, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • There were troughs, like thoughts of self-harm and, later, suicide attempts.
    — Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
  • Flip down the bowl (which is really more of a drinking trough) and give the bottle a few squeezes to dispense the water.
    — Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • However, due to the amount of smoke and the strength of the trough, air quality impacts would persist throughout the day.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The highest intensity of light is at the peak, and light attracts the atoms; there is no light at the trough, and therefore no atoms.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The challenge at the moment is a trough of low pressure sitting offshore.
    — al, 12 July 2022
  • The field was still mired in an innovation trough known as AI winter.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • As a sign of the care given to the finned attractions, the trough was filled Wednesday morning with a special load of spring water.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Using a board built with a small trough around the edge to catch all that ripe watermelon juice is even better.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 15 June 2023
  • On average, bear markets have taken 13 months to go from peak to trough and 27 months to get back to breakeven since World War II.
    — Alex Veiga, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022

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