Words similar to crank

Example sentences for: crank

How can you use “crank” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Brookhaven National Laboratories will crank up its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a nuclear accelerator designed to replicate the Big Bang.
The cruise ships crank up their flood lights, and the parties begin.
The number of people who work to put on one of these spectacles--building the set, brushing down the wigs, turning the crank that lowers Don Giovanni down into hell--is incredible.
One way to protest would be to follow the "crank" critics in acknowledging that movies such as Deep Impact and Small Soldiers don't require evaluation.
What do we learn from the willingness of extreme free-market conservatives to associate themselves with crank doctrines like bionomics?