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- adjective agitated vigorously; -- of a liquid.
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- adjective moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation
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Examples
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MASSENA, N.Y. — Border Patrol agent Glenn Pickering slowed his rumbling snowmobile to a stop and eyed two trails of churned-up snow running down a riverbank.
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MASSENA, N.Y. — Border Patrol agent Glenn Pickering slowed his rumbling snowmobile to a stop and eyed two trails of churned-up snow running down a riverbank.
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The next morning, in the churned-up sideyard, Dad handed me a shovel.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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MASSENA, N.Y. — Border Patrol agent Glenn Pickering slowed his rumbling snowmobile to a stop and eyed two trails of churned-up snow running down a riverbank.
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A huge hole had been excavated on the farther bank, a ford made for digging machines, aggregate was strewn over the greensward, concrete had been mixed by the bridge, cast-off oil-drums littered the stream, iridescence of spilt diesel glimmered across the churned-up ground.
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“Those were just planted,” she told them, pointing to the black-eyed Susans, which lay flattened in the churned-up dirt.
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
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Instead, a swath of churned-up earth at least a 150-feet wide cuts through the southern portion of the mesa and then plunges down to the beach.
Geri Spieler: Look Who Was at the Gate? Pat Nixon and the US/Mexico Border 2010
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“Those were just planted,” she told them, pointing to the black-eyed Susans, which lay flattened in the churned-up dirt.
Tell us we’re home Martina Budhos 2010
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Instead, a swath of churned-up earth at least a 150-feet wide cuts through the southern portion of the mesa and then plunges down to the beach.
Geri Spieler: Look Who Was at the Gate? Pat Nixon and the US/Mexico Border 2010
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But in this new, man-made lake in the middle of nowhere, in black, churned-up soil twenty miles from the heart ofChicago, it was sultry and still and the black water felt cool against the naked body.
Lynda, The First 2010
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