He shook his fists at the churned-up stretch of jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legacy] Reference

A distant cloud of churned-up dust pinpointed the moving herd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wait For The Sunrise]

The next morning, in the churned-up sideyard, Dad handed me a shovel.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

The guards slogged across the churned-up dirt as if it were rough going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of a Fallen Sun]

Hannibal brayed, shifting his weary feet in the churned-up muck of the field edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

Warrl raised his nose for a quick investigation, as Tarma read the churned-up snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathblood]

Myra helped Ginny carry the table out to a spread tarp in the churned-up back yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SETTING UP HOUSE] Reference

You may be in the stepping-off trench or lying face-down on the churned-up mud out on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Top With the Third Australian Division] Reference

A brief sweep of the enemy dead, frozen in their final agonies across a churned-up field.    From Wordnik.com.  [All-Day Permanent Red: Alex Cox and the Long March of American Militarism] Reference

In most cases, that churned-up energy translates quickly into aggressive reactions and speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

As they emerged on the churned-up slush of their path, five men materialized as if from nowhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distant Echo]

I coughed and gagged and managed to sit up, trying to catch my breath in that foul, churned-up air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Another photo made a few days later showed only a patch of churned-up earth: apparently a mass grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softening Up The Enemy] Reference

The churned-up landscape of the Samounis 'corner of Zeitoun is unrecognizable as a community any longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Smell Of Death] Reference

They picked their way carefully through the darkness, for the moon shed a tricky light over the churned-up ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Stalks The Ruins]

It covered everywhere, except the Hurlee field, which was a churned-up mess of dirty snow, clods of earth, and grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Valor]

The old burgundy Toyota was parked head-in midway along a narrow stretch of cobblestone covered with churned-up, dirty snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [CRUEL AND UNUSUAL] Reference

Scarritt noticed recently that when the wind was coming in strong from the south, over a foamy, churned-up Gulf, something new was going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Coast Communities Investigate Oily Sea Mist] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geri Spieler: Look Who Was at the Gate? Pat Nixon and the US/Mexico Border] Reference

Just as we halted at a spot where two puddly, churned-up sunken roads crossed, guns behind and on either side of us belched forth flame and rasping sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

But as he turned away, he caught sight of Healer Crathach sitting on the churned-up, bloody ground with Talamir's head in his lap, both hands resting on the Herald's forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

The foot soldiers moved up, archers behind them, and made a solid, defensive line ten men deep, planting their pikes firmly in the churned-up snow to await the Karsite charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brightly Burning]

The churned-up water frothed alongside with a confused murmur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Unrest] Reference

Italian sea was yellowish green with churned-up sand, like an unripe orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

I ran through the churned-up snow from one viewpoint to another, panting, and cheered until my throat hurt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

Topmost evanescent froth, he is churned-up from the very lees, and from all intermediate regions of the liquor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

As far as we could see along the line there was nothing left, not even trenches -- just churned-up earth and mutilated bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [World's War Events, Vol. II] Reference

The sea-gulls flying over a busy port of commerce, or floating at ease on the discoloured, choppy, churned-up waves of some great river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days Off And Other Digressions] Reference

“He turned up here five minutes ago looking all churned-up, and they’re closeted together in the drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

"I wouldn't believe," declared Hephzy, "that this lookin'-glass was the same as that churned-up tub of suds we slopped through before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kent Knowles: Quahaug] Reference

There was blood mixed with the churned-up snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodstream] Reference

Here was churned-up snow, where he’d fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodstream] Reference