[
UK
/tʃˈɜːn/
]
[ US /ˈtʃɝn/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɝn/ ]
VERB
-
be agitated
the sea was churning in the storm - stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
NOUN
- a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
How To Use churn In A Sentence
- As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned. A RAKE'S VOW
- But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
- The town council chairman said the grass outside the school was being churned up by tyres.
- It was the hub of activity in milk delivery and milk churns were a feature of every station.
- The lawn had been churned up by the tractor.
- Most fledgling parents or parents-to-be feel duty-bound to invest in some sort of guide to looking after a new baby, and publishers, naturally, feel duty-bound to take advantage of that by churning out one guide after another.
- Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name
- The rest of the album is equally mind-churningly inane.
- The core mantle boundary is a complex and dynamic area that churns and chugs as the liquid iron core roils at the bottom of the rock-like mantle.
- Scientists believe the magnetic field is generated deep inside the Earth where the heat of the planet's solid inner core churns a liquid outer core of iron and nickel.