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Example sentences for: crank

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

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.
Brookhaven National Laboratories will crank up its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a nuclear accelerator designed to replicate the Big Bang.
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.
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.
But that may not be easy: This dinner's the day after the New Hampshire primary, which means I've got to crank out some fresh material that morning, and I may not be well positioned.