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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:

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.
My irritation with the adulation of Big Names does not arise from my lack of fame, or from my working at a small university (which gives me freedom from "publish or perish": I can write what and when I like, rather than having to "crank it out").
Someone who writes book after book to refute what he doesn't understand is just a crank.
Gotta get the crank out of the water supply down on West 43rd Street; what the hell is wrong with the headline writers?
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.