487 examples of troughs in sentences

Drinking-troughs speak its virtues.

[metaphorical use] summit conference, summit; peak of achievement, peak of performance; peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys (in graphs).

From bamboos split in half, gutters, troughs, and roofing tiles can be made.

It was his benevolent thoughtfulness which had supplied drinking troughs for the flocks of pigeons that continually plundered the stores of the other grain merchants.

In winter, he made great wooden troughs, and sold them in the village, carrying sacks of food and tools back through the snow; hard days when he was tied to a load.

No need of lighting fires to see; he could sit indoors and work at his wooden troughs by daylight.

For the more powerful dogs the use of wrought-iron railings is advisable, and these can be procured cheaply from Spratt's or Boulton and Paul's, fitted with gates and with revolving troughs for feeding from the outside.

Reckon I might go turn a little mo' cotton-seed in the troughs for them cowsan' put some extry oats out for the mules an' the doctor's marean' onchain Rover, an' let 'im stretch 'is legs a little.

The films are wound on the great drums and run through the developer in the troughs as the drums are slowly revolved.

Wave succeeded wave, and moments followed moments, during which the stranger was given to their gaze, and as often disappeared, as the launch unavoidably fell into the troughs of the seas.

Not a golden dandelion on the road-side, not a gurgle of the plashing brown water from the well-troughs, which did not give a quicker pleasure to the glowing face.

"Grandma said sometimes the meals was carried to the fields and they fed the children out of troughs.

When the waves ran heavily, the Bridget's low sails got becalmed in the troughs, and she consequently lost much of her way.

Pringle crouched in the deep shadow of the wall, groped his way to the long row of watering troughs, and wormed himself under the upper trough, where the creaking windmill and the splashing of water from the supply pipe would drown out the sound of his labored breath.

An unnecessary precaution, as it turned out; Mr. Robbins, having filled that batch, went to the horses farther down the troughs to look for more canteens.

"Under the troughs.

Instead of revolving troughs, or those that are to be pulled out like drawers to be cleaned, a long, stationary one, generally of iron, extends across the whole breadth of the compartment next to the feeding passage.

These boxes or troughs, each about two feet wide and one foot deep, are divided into partitions by cross-boards, which do not reach, within a few inches, the top of the siding, so that the water shall make a continuous surface the whole length of the trough.

The water is let out of the mill-race upon these troughs through a wire-cloth filter, covering them about two inches deep above the stones.

At the bottom, a lateral channel or race, running at right angles to the troughs, conducts the waste water in a rapid, bubbling stream down into the feeding-pond, which covers the space of about one-fifth of an acre, close to the river, with which it is connected by a narrow race gated also with a wire-cloth, to prevent the little living mites from being carried off before their time.

Thus fourteen good-sized fish would stock the twenty-five troughs.

The Abenaqui women were busy there, inserting tubes of bark in pierced maple-trees, and troughs caught the flow of ascending sap.

All day Indian children raced from one mother's fire to another, or dipped unforbidden cups of hands into the brimming troughs; and at night they lay down among the dogs, with their heels to the blaze, watching these lower constellations blink through the woods until their eyes swam into unconsciousness.

Their wives and daughters, standing up to their knees in the river, washed it in wooden troughs.

These boats of the Indians resemble troughs, being hollowed out of a single trunk of a tree, and many of them are large enough to contain fifty men.

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