Examples of “trough” in a Sentence

noun A long, open container used to hold food or water for animals.

• The farmer filled the trough with fresh water for the horses.
• Ducks splashed around the old stone trough behind the barn.
• The pigs crowded around the trough at feeding time.

noun The lowest point of a wave, cycle, or graph, opposite of a peak.

• The chart shows the trough in the middle of the year before growth returned.
• Sales hit a trough in January before picking up again in spring.
• The boat dipped into the trough between two large waves.