Word Finder - churning

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To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.

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Now the cream is churned to make butter.

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To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

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To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.

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I was so nervous that my stomach was churning.

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(of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.

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(travel) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.

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(travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.

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The act by which something is churned.

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The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.

The churning in his stomach increased as the hours passed.

She stared at the churning water.

Her stomach was churning and her eyes burned with unshed tears.

He held her by the shoulders, his stomach churning from her distress.

She watched him systematically behead or run through the three men, her stomach churning at the sight of so much death.

The churning sea below was littered with jagged rocks that looked small from her perch a hundred feet above them.

A tow-haired boy happily dropped a Marlboro cigarette box in the churning water and then ran downstream to monitor its progress.

But his cry came an instant too late as Shipton plummeted past him, his ice ax swinging in a rip across Dean's calf as he plummeted backward into space, and down to the rocks and churning river below.

With his brain still churning from the phone conversation, it took sometime before his eyes focused on a penciled circle on one of the articles.

While she despised the man, her feelings still lacked a motive to sever his rope in cold blood and watch him plummet down to the rocks and churning river below.

However, Des was still churning out the memories.

Dean rose and wandered out to the front porch but in spite of his sterling speech, and overwhelming wish that he could forget the Shiptons and all the grief they had brought him, he couldn't quite chase the unfinished business from his churning mind.

The creatures are fairly brainless, churning about, chasing you.

Those who are unfamiliar with butter were churning the butter.

We feel those symbols churning within ourselves in somewhat the same way we feel our stomach churning.

Turning, stomach churning, I thought we were forever.

With so many designers churning out wedges every year, it's no surprise that the shoe remains one of the most popular styles available.

But they've been churning out lots of new 40x40 Landrangers in the past year, with the usual mishmash of good and bad.

Otherwise they'll carry on churning out tacky souvenirs which you're bored with within the week.

Otherwise they'll carry on churning out tacky souvenirs which you 're bored with within the week.

The celebrity reality genre has become a mainstay for VH1, with the network churning out more celebreality and less music video programming in the past couple of years.

Ray is no exception, churning out edition after edition of her 30 Minute collections.

She was signed almost immediately and started churning out singles.

Despite being on the other side of the country from Hollywood, it still has a way of churning out the talent.

There are so many different designers churning out their individual visions of baby boy tees that most parents choose to select their infant's clothes based on cost and convenience more than anything else.

This bastion of sex, sand and swimsuits has become a juggernaut, churning out breathtaking annual issues year after year.

Unlike pharmaceuticals, which are tightly controlled, practically anyone can start churning out vitamin supplements.

Though the fashion industry is dedicated to churning out hot new designs that will inevitably be overshadowed by the next season's spectacular items, certain fashionistas carry a sentimental penchant for the past.

The rumor mill is constantly churning out reports on popular soap characters and their individual storylines.

The lotus is sacred to those who believe in Hindu religion, as it is believed to have developed from the gods churning the sea - which produced this beautiful bloom with the goddess Lakshmi riding upon it.

Many of the passengers were ill and others whimpered and whined as the plane dropped, rose and rolled in the churning gusts, riding the heavy winds like a cork in a whirlpool.

Her eyes lingered on it, emotions churning within her.

The ramifications were disturbing; my mind a myriad of flashing light and churning thoughts.

Darian hesitated, stomach churning at the thought of what he'd come to do.

But the moment they started half-heartedly churning out radio-friendly bilge they became pretty big.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 Some delightful stuff from Sweden Sweden seems to be constantly churning out talented songwriters.

Many more reality shows can be found on cable, which is churning out new reality programming at an amazing speed.

The following theories are just highlights of the speculation churning up the Internet fanbase since the mini-series began in 2003.

The anti-aging skin care industry is quickly churning out products in response to the near-universal desire to achieve a youthful complexion.

You'll find a wide variety here, but remember that the anti-aging industry is constantly churning out new products every day.

Lastly, if you create widget after widget for the web or desktop, then you can be considered a widget factory because you are churning out applets and tiny programs quickly and efficiently.

The effect of chemical agents in producing coagulation are in consonance with what is known of other instances of polymeric or condensation changes, whilst the fact that the collection of globules separated by creaming after thorough washing, and therefore removal of all proteid, is susceptible of solidification into caoutchouc by a merely mechanical act such as churning, strongly supports the view that the character of the change is distinct from that of any alteration which may occur in the proteid constituents of the latex.

All that churning of sand and dust disguised their trail to some degree, but nothing could hide the trail of five heavy wagons.