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Example sentences for: crank

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There were over twenty terms for varying types of vagabond: rogue, prigger of prancers horse thief, counterfeit crank , and bawdy basket are but a few.
Time is the latest magazine to discover that "crank" (smokable methamphetamine) is sweeping the heartland.
This startling news prompted the mission crew commander at NEADS to take immediate control of the airspace to clear a flight path for the Langley fighters:"Okay, we're going to turn it . . . crank it up.
Brookhaven National Laboratories will crank up its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a nuclear accelerator designed to replicate the Big Bang.
-- Call Me a Crank