How to Use churn in a Sentence

churn

1 of 2 noun
  • But the churn didn’t stop there.
    — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 12 May 2026
  • That fatigue shows up in churn.
    — Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • There’s also the cost of churn.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Then there’s roster churn to fit the cap.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Drivers say that low wages and bad schedules drive the churn.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The honk of car horns disappears along with the diesel churn of trucks.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The mountain bike trails are a muddy churn with hour-long queues at the top.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Customer churn plunged to less than 2 percent.
    — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • So roster churn is an emerging coin of the realm for the Chiefs.
    — Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The Padres have certainly proved adept at prospect churn.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The challenge is steep in getting them up to speed while the season churns.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Ice cream churns behind the counter, two flavors to each machine.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This no-churn ice cream recipe has a very creamy texture and mild coffee flavor.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2026
  • Know your revenue, your margins, your churn, and your true cost to win a customer.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Hortiz has talked about bottom-of-the-roster churn.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • There's some political churn, no doubt about it.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • But the machinery of grading churns on.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Scale is important, but so is retention to avoid a heavy churn rate.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • Challenger attributes much of the churn to an economy in flux.
    — Jo Constantz, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • That was a great lesson for our churn-and-burn generation.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 3 May 2026
  • That churn continued over the weekend.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This ice cream is the real deal (not the no-churn stuff) so pull out the ice cream machine and get some spinning.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The sound is a deep, fascinating churn—they’re aiming the hatch.
    — Alexandra Oliva june 1, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • Woke is caught in the wake too, its fate a warning about just how powerful the churn behind those ships can be.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The company has been focused on bundling its services to cut down on subscriber churn.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • From the first car in line, a woman stepped out into the churn of the intersection.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The very existence of art and beauty can be enough to make the relentless churn seem worth it.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Can Slot’s side also become the poster boys at the other end of the churn spectrum?
    — James Nalton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • There has been a constant churn within leadership.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Ports that pulsed with the churn of cargo have fallen still, the din of commerce replaced by the soft rhythm of waves.
    — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026

churn

2 of 2 verb
  • The water churned all around us.
  • The wheels began to slowly churn.
  • The motorboats churned the water.
  • He showed them how to churn butter.
  • Still, the world keeps churning.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In place of steady waves, there’s just a churning sea.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Its back is a row of shields and churns the oceans to a frothing boil.
    — Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
  • My stomach churned with one too many sugary gels.
    — Dimity McDowell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The next step is to churn the mixture in your ice cream machine.
    — Martha Stewart, 3 July 2026
  • Its engine races, the belt at the back churning up snow and ice.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • More pressure to be steady while lineups churn around him.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • If a summer downpour churns the ground to mud, the kids have fun.
    — Richard Espinoza, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
  • It was mostly head down, churning the legs.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • There is a later train; wheels churn in the distance.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
  • If yours is smaller, halve the recipe or plan to churn it in batches.
    — Ann Maloney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Welcome to the churning now, old friend!
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Air gets whipped in during churning.
    — Tristan Graziano, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2026
  • He was wrapped up at the 5 and kept churning his legs and dove into the end zone.
    — Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Others tried to drive their cars out, churning the mud and getting stuck.
    — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Now, wandering alone, the textures of the city churn up that time.
    — Allison Larkin, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Setting a trap with a phone call Leigh’s head spun, and her stomach churned.
    — Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In the middle distance, sandstorms churn across the plain.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Members who sign up online tend to churn at a higher rate than those who sign up in the store.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 May 2026
  • The frigid water of the bay churned 220 feet below him.
    — Johnny Dodd, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The real world is already churning along.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The stories will churn all night long and into the morning on our website.
    — cleveland, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Most of these use a hand crank to churn, which can be a novelty at first, but a drag as the process wears on.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This is just one Venezuelan’s opinion in a churning sea of them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Then a nation’s anguish began to churn.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The concept of witness builds and churns and layers over the course of the reading.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023

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