How to Use trough in a Sentence

trough

noun

• The economy is in a trough right now.
• Even at the dot-com trough, anyone who stayed in was still in the green.
  — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Home prices plunged more than 20 percent from peak to trough.
  — Frances Schwartzkopff, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• Dogs and horses find their way to water troughs and take a drink.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
• Ahead of this front, there is a trough of surface low pressure.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 10 May 2018
• But the jet will take care of that—the trough is deepening again.
  — Geoff Fox, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
• As warm, strong winds whirl across the region, deep troughs are carved out as the ice thaws.
  — Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 6 Jan. 2025
• These people just can't seem to get their snouts out of the public trough.
  — arkansasonline.com, 25 Mar. 2025
• At its trough, the crypto was down more than 50% from its record.
  — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
• 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 troughs tend to usher in a cool onshore flow, with moist air from the west.
  — Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• This wide trough planter would look stunning with trailing plants spilling over the sides.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2026
• 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
• And even then, that heat would be short-lived if the trough lingers around with cooler air to come.
  — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
• Leadership is what moves change out of the trough and on to adoption.
  — Edward Tuorinsky, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• The boat lifts easily to each crest and slides down into the wide trough.
  — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
• Now that the trough has dissipated, the heat was back on.
  — Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 25 Mar. 2026
• But most of these crooked staties just keep slurping at the trough, forever.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
• Both showed a surge in births between 2am and 3am, and a big trough around 5pm.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• When fish swim into a large trough at the base of the dam, the lift carries them up and over the dam.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
• The ridges of the mountain are rugged — full of troughs and valleys that can hinder sonar.
  — Julie Cohn, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• 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 glint of the sun, gleaming light, on the tops, and shadow, darkness in the troughs.
  — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
• Qing Yuan opened the tap, gripped the edge of the trough, and ducked his head under the water.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
• Right now that low-pressure trough is centered over the Great Basin.
  — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
• That 2023 party was his final slurp at the trough.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
• Each father and son shared a cattle trough, facing each other.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• The soft soil behaves like a liquid, sloshing back and forth between the troughs and peaks of the waves.
  — WIRED, 15 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