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"Trough" in a Sentence (17 examples)
He sits upright, not crouched over his plate like an animal at a feeding trough.
He put the clothes in the trough.
He slipped from the roof directly into the trough and drowned.
The wavelength is the distance from crest to crest, or from trough to trough.
Tom filled the trough.
An aqueduct is a Roman water trough made of stone, either underground or across a bridge.
Mathafeni village about 600 kilometers southwest of Harare is in one of the driest districts in Zimbabwe, but a solar-powered borehole pumps water into a trough where some cattle are drinking.
The volcanic vents were discovered five kilometers down near the bottom of Cayman Trough — an undersea trench south of the Cayman Islands. Expedition co-leader Jon Copley, a marine biologist of the University of Southampton in England spoke to us via Skype.
One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
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It just clips on the front of the stage without any special trough, has no great power and occupies only one dimmer, […]
Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
He troughed his way through three meat pies.
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