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
• When the van broke down, some stayed in a chilled cattle trough.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 25 June 2018
• 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
• Man, that’s both hands, the feet, and a Hoover SuperVac in the trough right there.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 15 Mar. 2018
• Another tip is to place the trough on a base of blocks.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2020
• The troughs tend to usher in a cool onshore flow, with moist air from the west.
  — Robert Krier, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 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
• 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
• Both showed a surge in births between 2am and 3am, and a big trough around 5pm.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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 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
• For the last few weeks, the jet stream has dipped over the western third of the United States, a dip known as a trough.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 6 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
• Home prices plunged more than 20 percent from peak to trough.
  — Frances Schwartzkopff, Bloomberg.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• These people just can't seem to get their snouts out of the public trough.
  — arkansasonline.com, 25 Mar. 2025
• The left side also features a wide trough for your thumb.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 10 June 2020
• Dogs and horses find their way to water troughs and take a drink.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The sandwich chain is now offering a footlong trough of $5 Doritos nachos.
  — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2025
• In the 14 instances of bear markets over that period, the decline from peak to trough lasted an average of 13 months before things started turning around.
  — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2025