troughs
Example Sentences
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“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
“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
Vivi picks stalks of ragwort that grow near the water troughs.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
