Troughlike

Abe and Carmine watched Patrick gather the little boy up tenderly, put him into the towel-lined cavity of a bag, then hurry him away on what looked to the curious like a flat, empty gurney; it had a troughlike bottom that did not betray the presence of a small body. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2009)

Certain he was on the right trail, the Spartan crossed the troughlike depression that split the room in two, and was forced to step over and around a scattering of Covenant corpses as he approached the hatch. ❋ Dietz, William (2003)

There was a long troughlike bed stretching out at their feet; this had served as the bed for the servants' children. ❋ Judy Klass (2000)

Toiling through sand ankle-deep, the traveler plods across the edge of the plains, through troughlike valleys, and up the wooded slope of the Mesa de los Jumanos. ❋ Edmund Day (1894)

The smoke of their camp fire drifted down the troughlike valley from their encampment. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

They counted on much better going in the flat valley of the Athabasca than they had had in crossing the country back of them, broken as it had been with many little waterways and by the deep, troughlike valleys of the bolder streams making northward into the Athabasca. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

After an hour of sharpish work among slaty shelves and threatening crags, we got into one of those troughlike hollows hung on each side with precipices, which look as if the earth had sunk for the sake of letting the water through. ❋ Unknown (1862)

Tim Rowan' s "Untitled," a troughlike form resting on a metal stand, looks just like what it is: earth. ❋ By SUSAN HODARA (2010)