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• The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.From the entry oink
• At that moment, lying in lukecool water in the wooden trough, I wanted nothing.2021 April 5, Marc Haws, Ride a Westward Wind, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry lukecool
• She's a freako religious number, pushing Christians into any trough of water handy to rebaptize them.1976 August 14, Bunny LaRue, “Levitation Anyone?”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 5. From the entry rebaptize
• No water troughs are provided on any part of the Southern Railway.1946 November and December, “The Why and The Wherefore: Water Troughs on the S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 391. From the entry water trough
• God is a mountain spring and not a watering trough.2006, John Piper, “Demand #37: Lay Up for Yourselves Treasures in Heaven—“It Is Your Father’s Good Pleasure to Give You the Kingdom””, in…. From the entry replenishingly
• This body is a phacolith intruded along the gneiss-schist boundary in the trough of a syncline that plunges 16° southeast.1947, Virgil Everett Barnes, Raymond Fillmore Dawson, George Ashworth Parkinson, Building Stones of Central Texas - Volume 19, page 21. From the entry phacolith
• "Prov'dence points de way trough de doorway ob hebbin.”1939, The Candle, page 9. From the entry ziggety
• I reject the whole oppressive system that exists just so wealthy snobs can gorge at the trough of gluttony!” “Ah, come on, you earned it.2025 September 15, David A. Goodman, “The Trouble with Truffles” (18:42 from the start), in Futurama, season 10, episode 9, spoken by…. From the entry snarf
• In the phrase 'ida(g) vi lovade' (today we promised), typical Scanian intonation would gradually decline across the phrase and include two peaks and troughs.2019, Nathan Joel Young, Rhythm in late-modern Stockholm: Social stratification and stylistic variation in the speech of men, BOOKS on…. From the entry multiethnolectal
• Ig would have lived in the trough tub, but her lips went blue and quiversome after only a few minutes in even tepid water.2016, Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus. From the entry quiversome
• The slime-providers were never given any training of any kind, and the troughs were freshly cleaned and reslimed before each experimental animal was run.2013, W. C. Corning, Stanley C. Ratner, Chemistry of Learning: Invertebrate Research, page 230. From the entry reslime
• In the LV the anterior part of the hinge is developed as a deep, oval, loculate trough which is framed proximally by a torose lip.2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 62. From the entry torose
• Its relief scene includes 11 cupids harvesting and stomping on grapes to make wine in a lenos, a long trough similar to the sarcophagus itself.2008 June 5, Edward Wyatt, “Getty Adds to Antiquities With Third-Century Work”, in New York Times. From the entry lenos
• The pneumatic trough used at Calne was larger than that he had used in Leeds, and fresh water was not so conveniently at hand.2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 94. From the entry pneumatic trough
• The function of the positive vortex advection in front of trough and vortex developping causes the developping cyclone connected with upper-air trough and vortex.1998, Qian Fang, “Analysis and Forecasting of the Jianghuai Cyclone”, in Johnny C. L. Chan, Jin Tong Wang, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd…. From the entry developping
• Broad-gauge track consists of both bullhead and flat-bottom rails, carried on a variety of sleepers—treated soft wood, hard wood, steel trough—and cast-iron pots and plates.1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120. From the entry broad-gauge
• The New York Central Railroad was the first railway in the U.S.A. to use water troughs, or track pans, as they are called in America.1949 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Water Troughs in the U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 137. From the entry track pan
• The replacement of steam locomotives by diesel traction in the United States is resulting in the disappearance of water troughs, or track pans as they are styled in America.1956 May, “Removal of Water Troughs in U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 280. From the entry track pan
• These typically occur in subductive troughs and it is apparent, both from their petrology and regional setting, that graywackes are often derived from the rising island arcs of volcanic origin.2000, Richard C. Selley, Applied Sedimentology, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 355. From the entry subductive
• In some flat stores a small trough or day silo is located on the perimeter inside the flat store which is also accessed from the outside of the flat store.1998, Bulk Solids Handling. From the entry flat store

Meaning of trough

1. noun A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
2. noun Any similarly shaped container.
3. noun A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.

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Questions about trough in a sentence

How do you use trough in a sentence?

Trough is used as a noun and verb. For example: “One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.”

What is a short sentence with trough?

“He troughed his way through three meat pies.”

What does trough mean?

Trough means a long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.