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"Crank" in a Sentence (41 examples)
Hey! I don't want any crank calls - not at this hour.
It will take you a whole lifetime to understand a crank like him.
What a crank he is!
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
Can you crank up the heat?
Crank up the heater.
Before he had been a month in Avonlea he had won the reputation of being an odd person . . . "a crank," Mrs. Rachel Lynde said.
These crank shafts are precision balanced for smooth high revving engines.
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This ship is so crank and walty I fear our grave she will be!
The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
He who was a little before bedred[…]was now cranke and lustie.
If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.
John is a crank because he talks to himself.
Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.
The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest. They think that raw food is the manna of heaven.
But do you know what isn't in the school books? That old Rossum was mad. Seriously, Miss Glory, you must keep this to yourself. The old crank wanted to actually make people.
That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.
Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.
I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.
Give it a forceful crank.
By comparison, consider the conductor of a double-decked Blackpool tram on August Monday, who hurries up and down stairs to a hundred or more passengers and serves each one by a simple crank of a handle.
So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.
Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank.
Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
Crank it up!
Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
Better computers use variable speed fans so they run at top speed only when the computer is really cranking
When we were playing at the top of our ability and really cranking, the whole thing could sound like a jet plane taking off in the club.
expected that the NVA and VC were in a position to dish out what they're dishing out, and the rumor mill is really cranking overtime.
See how this river comes me cranking in.
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