Sentence examples for like a trough from inspiring English sources
We'll have to get a metal one, like a trough or something".
He was sitting on the sill of his little casement window, his feet in the lead-lined gutter that ran like a trough the length of the Georgian terrace, looking down over the stone parapet into the street, four stories below.
While that rate is down from a peak over the summer when as many as 100 were sent per second, it doesn't feel like a trough of sorrow.
In the bed of an old pickup truck he had stacked up stuff that he pointed out piece by piece: a pressure canner that needed a seal, a broad ax, a logger's peavey pole for turning logs, an empty 50-gallon drum the good heavy kind and on top, a small galvanized sheet-metal bathtub upside down, looking like a trough for watering livestock.
Because without those mouthbreathers, I wouldn't be gobbled up like slop in a trough, alone, not flavoring anything, like some sort of sweet, third-world spam.
They sweep into parliament, but discover the politicians "snoring like pigs round a trough".
No, New Yorkers waited in line for it like horses at a trough.
They are so dim and the type on the menu is so dense that my dinner partners and I were all hunched over our menus like horses at a trough.
People collided with one another at the doorway, pushing and shoving like pigs at a trough.
How about the sour and sickening smell of welfare hypocrites - like pigs at a trough.
