Sentence examples for a crank with from inspiring English sources

I recall that she once said that a person who didn't eat butter was a crank with limp hair.

The familiar and common brace, a crank with a breast swivel at one end and a drill point at the other, is first seen in a painting of about 1425 that shows the biblical Joseph at his bench.

Watson senior "struck his contemporaries as a nut and a crank with his policy that 'People who perform are my partners'," according to the late management guru, Peter Drucker.Idealism was sharpened by feelings of guilt over earlier ethical lapses.

The principal singer, Serj Tankian, does a pretty good impression of a ranter, a sidewalk crank with an agenda, though perhaps what has made them famous is neither politics nor giggles but hard-rock formalism.

"Technology nuts" is shorthand for the people who really do care what gears the riders are using in the mountains — a 53/34 crank with an 11-26, yielding a gear ratio of 34x26, 34x29 or 36x29 — and by how many millimeters their saddles have been raised.

All this might create the impression of a musical crank with a taste for electronics and vast stage spectacles.

A hard-living crank with a trademark mustache, he sang his wry tales of losers and jilted lovers in a striking, world-weary baritone.

He will just be an old crank with eyes like wormholes into hell.