I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
milk churn
sb's stomach churns (= they feel sick because they are nervous or frightened )
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Her stomach was churning with anxiety.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
stomach
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Vultures the world over eat meat so rotten it makes one's stomach churn just thinking about it.
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Miguel rolled a joint, but his stomach was churning , the air heavy with emotion.
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Lunch-hour came and went, but with Merrill's stomach still churning she was in no mood to eat.
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Still your stomach continues to churn and heave.
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In his stomach there churned a disabling sense of his own vulnerability.
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His stomach and heart churned with hunger.
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Polly looked away, her stomach churning with a nausea that couldn't be blamed solely on hunger or seasickness.
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Your stomach beings to churn with the action of the vasopressin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was now churning out drawings at a tremendous rate.
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Lowe knew the sects and the papers they churned out were going nowhere.
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My mind churned with countless plots and schemes, conjuring up acts of untold terror and devastation.
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Once he mastered the formula, he could churn out scripts, finishing one in a record 24 hours.
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This crowd must churn with pseudonyms, with noms de guerre.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
milk
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It was the hub of activity in milk delivery and milk churns were a feature of every station.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An ice cream churn on a plow was more or less all that a crop sprayer was in its earlier inception.
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I sat 60 foot under the stage, rooting my feet into the wooden earth, smelling the butter in the churn .
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The milk was turning in the churn , but the butter would not come.