churn
noun
a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
churned
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past participleof churn.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof churn.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
churnnouna container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
Example Sentences
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The impact likely churned up older material and mixed the fossils into the rocks while still preserving them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
East Longmeadow churned out more than one million games a week during the pandemic, but orders softened as the country reopened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Aside from being showered with gravel churned up by the "gobby" miscreants, no one came to harm that day, but others have not been so lucky.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Ukraine is one of the cradles of world winemaking," Klimov said, even though during the Soviet era factories churned out "wine of almost zero quality".
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The wheels churned and churned, echoing with the scrape of metal on metal, the hiss of steam and the whine of brakes.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
