- plural of trough.
troughs
Example Sentences
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The peaks and troughs under Clarke were quite something.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Convoluted Line A” and “Convoluted Line B” are metal troughs set into a raised concrete platform, their winding forms charting a course that visitors must circumvent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
What the pair found was a desert highway that rolls up and down, like an asphalt serpent, with deadly blind peaks and treacherous hidden troughs.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
If the war is mercifully short and risk appetite troughs in March, as Hartnett and team expect, then the bid for what he refers to as the inflation boom beneficiaries should reassert itself.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026
During the fall and winter the salmon eggs, large and thick- shelled, lay in shallow gravel-filled troughs, or redds, which the mother fish had dug in the stream bottom.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
