Sentence examples for crane from inspiring English sources

"crane" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it both as a noun and a verb. Example sentence (noun): I saw a majestic crane soaring above the lake. Example sentence (verb): I craned my neck to get a better view.

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crane

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Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.

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In a city full of light, where you barely have to crane your neck to glimpse the sky, a third-storey pop-up feels like an affront.

Everywhere soldiers and volunteers work in the dust, in silence broken only by crane motors and the wall of ambulance sirens.

CCTV footage shows a large, unmarked, mobile crane backing up at the direction of some disguised individuals.

A statement from the Bowen Tourism office said the CCTV footage shows the "suspicious" crane driving past the office towards the big mango.

As accident investigators began slowly extracting pieces of the helicopter from the shattered roof of the Clutha bar using a mobile crane, Sir Stephen House, the chief constable of Scotland, named the two officers killed in Friday's tragedy as constables Kirsty Nelis, 36, and Tony Collins, 41.

While rescue workers slowly secured the helicopter's tail boom with chains from a huge mobile crane brought on to the site before they attempted to lift it clear, political leaders including the deputy first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, senior officers from the rescue services and families and friends of those involved in the disaster attended a memorial service at Glasgow Cathedral.

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I have turned to publishing as a productive outlet, but I am filled with a frustration that no amount of crane-dangling will ever quell.

Saturday, 5.30pm, Welford Road, ESPN The game of the weekend by a country mile sees Jordan Crane, missing for most of last season, take over the Tigers' captaincy from Geordan Murphy.

Sky On Demand When he's not sporting dubious mutton-chops as Mad Men's Harry Crane, Rich Sommer can be found tossing dice and stacking Jenga blocks as host of this board games podcast.

David Crane in the Spectator, too, thought striking the notion that the 20th century, which wiped out "perhaps 50 million to 100 million in two world wars", not to mention the gulag, "the Cultural revolution, civil wars, government-orchestrated-famine,… trench-stewed pandemics and any number of genocides", was, "in fact, the safest there has ever been".

His deputies have organised a rearguard action, to be led by Philip Crane in the House, to reverse the amendment's provisions.

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