Example sentences for: cranks

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

  • Penderecki cranks up 19 th -century Baroque-style rhetoric into something both stentorian and shrill.

  • What this means is that even a handful of wealthy cranks can support an impressive-looking array of think tanks, research institutes, foundations, and so on devoted to promoting an economic doctrine they like.

  • David Denby argued in a New Yorker article earlier this year that they face a choice of being either hucksters or cranks.

  • On the whole, despite the preliminary screening that callers are subjected to, mainly in order to eliminate cranks, drunks, and undesirables, those who do get through rarely have anything of moment to contribute, the presenters are notably unsympathetic in eliciting a fair exposure of their comments, and the listener is (too) often left with the feeling that the presenter has been too dismissive.

  • Over the years, their lobbies have been effective at working with local cranks to regulate the minutiae of the wine business.


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