How to Use churn in a Sentence

churn

1 of 2 noun
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  • And investors may see a lot more churn over the next year.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This is a very compelling service and churn is too high.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Discovery+, which launched in January 2021, has been blessed with a low churn rate.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 May 2023
  • The churn of the transfer portal will be a steady beat until the end of January.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • But such worker churn has since fallen from its fever pitch—the quits rate has dropped back to its 2019 rate.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The cultural churn that makes something a star one day and destroys it the next could be the saving grace.
    — Kim Severson, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The loss of key sports rights in the region also set the stage for significant churn on the Hotstar front.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Challenger attributes much of the churn to an economy in flux.
    — Jo Constantz, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • To simplify, this version pulls from both no-churn ice cream and semifreddo methods for the best of both worlds.
    — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 18 July 2022
  • There has also been less churn in the chair role since the pandemic began, while tenures have increased.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • At the same time, customer churn is low, the company contended.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2022
  • Almost all of them are sweeping ensemble dramas set in the churn of Taipei.
    — Dennis Zhou, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Social media churn makes the sharpest topical joke sound years late by 11 PM ET.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • That could send churn rates, already rising across most of the industry, soaring.
    — David Bloom, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • At the base of a seawall, the constant churn of water stirs up sediment; that sediment is then swept back to sea.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • It’s certainly been an emotionally taxing year for Williams, and that’s before the painful churn of the draft process.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The complicated process for switching providers has helped keep the churn rate hovering near or below a record low of 1% a month for more than a year.
    — Scott Moritz, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But amid this churn, one patient, in recent months, has been a constant: Rodolfo Parris.
    — Joseph Goldstein Desiree Rios, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • For other companies in streaming, the rush to turn a profit has turned into a battle against churn.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But people's faces often show the signs of sleepless nights under attack, fatigue from the churn of tragic news and, above all, grief.
    — Hanna Arhirova and Jae C. Hong The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The consequences of this infectious churn are already starting to play out.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • This fall, oblivious to the political churn, the tide continued to rise and fall over the inlet’s stony beaches.
    — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, she’s been surprised by the churn she’s seen as colleagues and mentors come and go through the manufacturing plant.
    — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The sheer churn of new Amapiano artists and styles means being on or ahead of the curve is what largely guarantees success for many South African artists producing in the genre.
    — Seretse Letswalo, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2023
  • More roster churn is expected with the Ducks projected to have 88 scholarship players in the fall — three over the limit.
    — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But Les’ vocals are clearer by design, and the music often defaults into trap stomps and emo-punk churn.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In most years, the chilly viral churn doesn’t abate until late winter, which means hospitals may be only at the start of a grueling few months.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • There is much lower religious churn among Black Protestants and among Jews who seem overall happy in their faith traditions and tend to stay there.
    — Jason Derose, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Taking on too much can create organizational churn, while showing quick, iterative progress will help improve learning and adoption.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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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.
  • The churning mass smells yeasty and a lot like bread dough.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The gates to the closer’s role seem to churn as fast as the turnstiles at Globe Life Field.
    — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Its engine races, the belt at the back churning up snow and ice.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • The concept of witness builds and churns and layers over the course of the reading.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • If a summer downpour churns the ground to mud, the kids have fun.
    — Richard Espinoza, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Now, wandering alone, the textures of the city churn up that time.
    — Allison Larkin, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The blades churned and Lt. Taylor and his co-pilot were set to leave.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • If yours is smaller, halve the recipe or plan to churn it in batches.
    — Ann Maloney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The plane yawed left and right, dipped and climbed to avoid the flocks, churning my stomach like a roller coaster.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • By staying silent, the city may keep its distance from the agony of the shooting, and the fear and loss churned up by its wake.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The stories will churn all night long and into the morning on our website.
    — cleveland, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Members of the press clustered at the fence, pads in hand, as the grandstand churned with an overflow crowd yet again.
    — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Still, the scale of future CEO churn will likely hinge on the election and how the economy fares in 2024.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The hikers rested, some for a few minutes, some for an hour, as the rain churned closer.
    — Lizzie Johnson and Lauren Tierney, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • So there’s going to be more change and churn in the whole landscape of college football.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Dillon May recorded a video of the chaotic scene as dozens of sharks churned the sea surface white and filled the air with spray.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Others tried to drive their cars out, churning the mud and getting stuck.
    — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The abundance of the digital age can feel like famine, its speed and churn like stagnation.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Mo Chara put his hands on it as the crowd churned, demanding us to bring more and more energy.
    — Tori Sharp, Pitchfork, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In Park Falls, the machines continue to churn and rumble.
    — John Schmid, jsonline.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • On the heels of a summertime rally, markets have started to churn again.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The conveyor belt of rumors has been churning for weeks.
    — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2024
  • This front is part of the wider winter storm that will churn up strong winds, heavy rain and snow showers across most of the northern part of the state on Thursday.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But the churning action itself was easy and didn’t require a lot of strength or effort.
    — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 June 2023
  • While the two Georges squared off two yards apart after the running back churned upfield in traffic, Kittle lost his angle on Karlaftis.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • To be sure, our data for women’s time as CEO is drawn from a small sample size—the very problem that makes tenures and chief executive churn relevant.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024

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