How to Use churn through in a Sentence

churn through

verb
  • As the sport skews younger, the churn through young players has never been higher.
    — Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Peru has churned through six presidents in the past seven years.
    — Manuel Rueda, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023
  • By the time the alert went out, the fire had already churned through the evacuation zone.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Just as thoughts constantly churn through your mind during the day, the same thing can happen at night.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2022
  • Houses and businesses saw their roofs ripped open and windows smashed as the twister churned through the area.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • But not all warehouses churn through workers at the rate Amazon does.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • On one side, cars churn through a traffic circle; on the other, a span of highway shimmers.
    — Ligaya Mishan Anthony Cotsifas Emily Woo Zeller Tanya Pérez Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 13 May 2024
  • How many quarterbacks can one franchise churn through in a single season?
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Phillies could use the unclaimed eighth spot to churn through middle relievers.
    — Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • At a position that tends to churn through injuries over the course of a season, two options aren’t enough.
    — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
  • There was only the howling wind and the crackling of flames churning through empty houses.
    — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Names will continue to churn through the rumor mill like an endless conveyor belt.
    — Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
  • Watch for the Senate to churn through a slate of lower-level nominees over the next few weeks.
    — Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But so do other companies that churn through employees.
    — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • In just a few harrowing moments, Belle churned through the rough waters, and her crew exhaled.
    — Katherine Rosman Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • While Fouts settled in, Vawter kept churning through the lineup by mixing speeds.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 3 June 2023
  • In the intervening decades, most of the best-quality ore there, and indeed around the globe, has been churned through.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Over the next few days, the expedition ship will churn through the waves and ice, keeping watch for polar bears and other wildlife.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2023
  • So how should regular people think about all the huge sums of money churning through the industry?
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • There have always been vast god-like energies churning through and powering the air-currents and ocean-flows.
    — Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The grand expectation of churning through the list was morphing into a muse.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But jumping worms churn through soil much more quickly than other worms, which can create problems, Little said.
    — al, 4 May 2021
  • In turn, Bush tapped Cheney for the job after watching his mind churn through pros and cons of candidates.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
  • At times, Penn State churned through receiver coaches at an alarmingly fast clip.
    — Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Revenue had plunged $2 billion in five years, and the company had churned through three chief executives.
    — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • But a dozen years after its launch, Kickstarter had lost its cachet of cool and churned through CEOs.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Both storms churning through the Atlantic are producing dangerous rip currents and rough surf.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This lets the bulk of these craft fly through air—at speeds up to 60 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour)—rather than churn through water.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2021
  • RealPage’s software uses an algorithm to churn through a trove of data to suggest rent prices.
    — Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022

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