troughs

Example Sentences

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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

“The tips of the waves are called ridges and the bottoms of the waves are called troughs, and so the atmosphere flows just like water.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Some rest over deep troughs or underwater mountains, while others lie across broad, flat plains.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

When they arrived, Henrietta and the cousins would help unhitch the horses and fill their troughs with grain, then unload the family’s tobacco onto the wood-plank floor of the warehouse.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot