troughs
Example Sentences
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In this analogy, troughs are associated with lower pressure and cooler, wetter weather, while ridges are linked to higher pressure and warmer, drier conditions — helping explain why cold snaps and warm spells often alternate.
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
But its shape, though haunting, is also oddly inviting, bringing to mind stone troughs and thirsty animals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Two dozen start-ups came to market in 2020-21, then cratered by three-quarters to troughs in 2023-24, Carter says.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
In moonlight, two acres of coarse bent grass, undulant and ankle deep, tumbled and rough as a horse’s mane, appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troughs and hollows.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
