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Example sentences for "churned"

Lexicographically close words:
churlish; churlishly; churlishness; churls; churn; churning; churns; churring; chuse; chuses
  1. When he had churned a bit, he remembered that their milking cow was still shut up in the byre, and hadn't had a bit to eat or a drop to drink all the morning, though the sun was high.

  2. First of all, he wanted to churn the butter; but when he had churned a while, he got thirsty, and went down to the cellar to tap a barrel of ale.

  3. The farmer churned angrily, and she watched him keenly.

  4. Her arms as she churned were sinewy as those of a man; and her bluntly-lidded grey eyes were searching and shrewish.

  5. If the quality be really as good by this quick churning, the alleged inferiority in the quality of butter churned quickly in the common churn cannot be due to the mere rapidity of churning alone.

  6. Clouted cream may be churned in the morning after it is made, that is, within twenty-four hours of the time when the milk was taken from the cow; and from such cream it is well known that the butter separates with very great ease.

  7. Cream, according to Mr. Aiton, may be safely churned in an hour and a half, while milk ought to obtain from two to three hours.

  8. In summer the cream should be churned on the following day; in winter it may stand over two days.

  9. The ground throughout the whole front was so sodden with rain and churned up by shell-fire as to be impassable to troops in any numbers.

  10. Even the churned wake had blended utterly with the surrounding waves.

  11. All around her the water was churned by the bursting projectiles.

  12. All across them the sea was churned by the ricochetting shells, while ever and anon a terrific waterspout accompanied by a dull roar showed that they were making good work in clearing away the hostile mines.

  13. But they only churned uselessly in the drift; their hoofs could find no footing, save the yielding masses of snow.

  14. Then--with dawn--the plow churned with lesser impact.

  15. Today, however, Joe's ignorance of motors mattered not at all, for the engine ran sweetly and the Adventurer churned through the green water without a falter.

  16. So "No Stop" was the order, and the Adventurer, turning back into home waters off Lubec, churned her way through the Bay of Fundy at a good pace.

  17. Gradually the manila cable tightened and strained and the screw churned hard, but the Adventurer, save for righting herself a trifle, gave no indication of moving from her sandy bed.

  18. The Adventurer was drifting toward the shore now, and Steve turned and slipped the clutch into reverse and churned back a few yards.

  19. The cream that drips into the dish below should be returned to the pail and churned over.

  20. Rain had fallen for hours and the ground was churned up into a quagmire, but a halt, even in these surroundings, was welcome.

  21. Time, like a slow whirlpool churned it over into sight and out of sight, like a mass of dead sea-weed in a backwash.

  22. And this spray comes from the parijata tree, [267] which rose when the Milky Ocean was churned by gods and demons.

  23. Drift-ice churned in the rapid and broke with jarring crashes upon the rocks.

  24. Poisoned flies dropped upon the tables and an electric fan made an unpleasant whirring as it churned the humid air.

  25. The Laffitte will be churned into butter," groaned H.

  26. Inside the house the air had been churned up and down by the detonations.

  27. It is little else than a red smear in the greyish yellow desolation, where constant bombardment has reduced the bricks of its houses to a powder and then has churned and pestled the powder into the harried earth.

  28. The ground where the lieutenant had fallen, the ground for many acres round him, was a half-liquefied mass of mud churned up into lumps and hummocks pitted and cratered with shell-holes intersected with rivulets and pools of water.

  29. A mile farther on a soldier warned them that the cross-roads were practically impassable, the roadway being broken and churned up by the heavy shells that all afternoon had been and were still at intervals falling upon it.

  30. First of all he wanted to churn the butter; but when he had churned a while, he got thirsty, and went down to the cellar to tap a barrel of ale.

  31. When he had churned a bit, he remembered that their milking cow was still shut up in the brye, and hadn't had a bit to eat or a drop to drink all the morning, though the sun was high.

  32. All at once the propeller churned water, reversed.

  33. The Master and Leclair were first to touch foot to the shelving bottom, all churned up by the long cavalry-charges of the sea-horses, and to drag themselves out of the smother.

  34. It was by now high noon and insufferably hot, and the soft alluvial dust churned up by motor bicycles and galloping hoofs rose in suffocating clouds.

  35. The heavy traffic of the last few days had churned up the whole countryside into a powdery dust, which rose in such heavy clouds as to make breathing difficult, and to see even the man immediately in front was next to impossible.

  36. The gulf was ridged with foam-fleeced breakers, and the water churned into green, tawny wastes.

  37. I felt as exhilarated as one new to the life when I looked astern and saw the broad path of foam churned by the ship rising and falling and fading upon the desolate gloom of the hilly horizon.

  38. A little way down the hill a spring of water trickled into a little pool hollowed out by travellers, and the water overflowed and made thick black mud of the earth churned up with last year's dead leaves.

  39. Much ugliness is churned up in the wake of mighty, moving forces.

  40. Clambering from point to point, whichever way the eye turned, it fell upon clouds of spray, upon swift giddy leaps made by the clear beryl-coloured water before it was churned into foam by the force of its descent.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "churned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.