[ UK /t‍ʃˈɜːn/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɝn/ ]
VERB
  1. be agitated
    the sea was churning in the storm
  2. stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
NOUN
  1. a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
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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.
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