Sentence examples for trough to from inspiring English sources

A wave has height — the distance from trough to crest.

They can't be allowed to feed at the public tax trough to protect private property.

The motors looked like cattle coming to a trough to drink.

In each case, dipping into the public trough to appease constituents has led to white elephants.

Usually payrolls grow 15 percent from trough to peak over the course of a business cycle.

In that context, the last three economic cycles have been unusally lengthy, averaging 95 months from trough to peak.

Julia stopped mid-sentence, wincing, and Kevin lifted a bean-shaped plastic trough to her lips and she vomited into it.

The action is limited to four "shoots", including one momentous occasion when three birds line up along the trough to drink together.

"At the same time that they're asking people to make sacrifices, some of these executives were feeding at the trough to enrich themselves," he said.

Cable also attacked Osborne, saying the Tories just "wanted another chance to get their noses in their trough to reward their rich backers".

They land in the trees and bushes first, passing messages to each other – "chp-chp-chp" – or conducting fly-bys of the trough to assess its safety.