How to Use churn through in a Sentence

churn through

verb
  • Authorities urged residents to seek out shelter at cooling centers opened across Houston to prevent the death toll from rising; at least four people died in the area as Beryl churned through.
    Scott Dance, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • By the time the alert went out, the fire had already churned through the evacuation zone.
    Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • While Fouts settled in, Vawter kept churning through the lineup by mixing speeds.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 3 June 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
  • 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
  • Peru has churned through six presidents in the past seven years.
    Manuel Rueda, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But not all warehouses churn through workers at the rate Amazon does.
    Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Turkey goes through central bank chiefs like Italy used to churn through prime ministers...
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Aside from the fact that cellular range with 5G is subpar relative to 4G, iPhones with 5G chipsets churn through battery life at a much faster clip.
    Yoni Heisler, BGR, 7 May 2021
  • The clouds, leaden with impending rain, hung ominously low as the winds churned through the grandstand, and the rumble of thunder caused many to tear their gaze from the game and glance briefly upward.
    Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Near the Oregon border, firefighters battled a wildfire that churned through 2,000 acres in a single day.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • His attorneys from that time — Francis has churned through lawyers over the years — did not respond Friday to the Union-Tribune’s request for comment.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • If the roster continues to churn through injuries and trades — rumors for the rebuilding Hawks continue to mount — then more prospects might stream in.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Considering how many customers Kegel’s churns through on a Friday night, I was impressed by how good the food was, how cozy the setting seemed and how jovial the hard-working staff were.
    Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But the fresh chaos of facts churned through the culture war, needling its obsession with who, on San Francisco’s symbolic turf in 2023, was the real victim.
    Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The tech industry has been churning through one fad after another lately, from self-driving cars and the metaverse to NFTs and web3.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 16 May 2023
  • With a 64-ounce capacity to churn through salsas, thick vegetable soups and chunky pasta sauce, this Vitamix is a great all-rounder.
    Krystin Arneson, CNN Underscored, 24 Sep. 2020
  • But jumping worms churn through soil much more quickly than other worms, which can create problems, Little said.
    al, 4 May 2021
  • Beryl continues churning through the Caribbean Sea, and its long-term track is uncertain.
    Scott Dance, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • For four months before every race, at his base in Kaptagat, Kenya, the fastest marathoner in history will churn through slight variations of the same workouts, week in, week out.
    Cathal Dennehy, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Hurricane Lee is a powerful storm churning through the Atlantic.
    Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The Broncos have been even worse, posting six straight losing seasons while churning through coaches and quarterbacks.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In communities with high rates of infection, a typical nursing home can churn through hundreds of tests a week.
    Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020

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