churn
noun
a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
was churning
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past progressiveof churn.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Once I noticed that the supermarket where I shop was churning out generic cornball Walmart country music to a staff that consisted almost entirely of Hispanic women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Once the original factory was churning out raw materials and profits, Corning had the confidence to move up the value chain to make wafers and compete on a better footing with China.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
This isn’t the 2000s, when Cal was churning out first-class seasons, or the 2010s, when Stanford was winning Rose Bowls.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
But she grew dissatisfied with the factory films the studio was churning out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
All of a sudden sand was churning under my feet as I sprinted across the beach.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
