Sentence examples for crank I from inspiring English sources

"You've pinpointed what a crank I am.

For this window crank I brought, you show me a muted wall of TVs where Jeff Goldblum picks his way through the splintered remains of a dinosaur crate.

His e-mails to regulators make him sound like a crank: "I trade very large but change my mind in a second"; "For the large part it is just my INTUITION".

His e-mails to regulators make him sound like a crank: "I trade very large but change my mind in a second"; "For the large part it is just my INTUITION". Yet the S.E.C. and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission claim that he's made millions of dollars trading S. & P. futures by cleverly scamming the market.

For a weird foray into the mental ephemera of a crank, I would recommend Bill Knott, who haunted Boston's bookstores and lunch counters in the post-hippie days and became a sabre-wielding blogger — rather Roman, rather savage, like Juvenal — in the Ask Jeeves era.

So if someone wants to yank a guy's crank, I say let 'em," Chris says, as the audience of community members listen in rapt silence.

The team used CGI to take the omnipresent crank "Is your refrigerator running?" and turn it into personified heart-melter focused on an animated (literally and figuratively) fridge named Chillie.

"Talking about how great old San Francisco was exposed me as the crank and grump I was becoming... the Baghdad-by-the-Bay stuff..

Cranks, I believe, is the word that keeps coming up to describe them.

You should see some of the crank letters I've got: I'm a merchant of death, I should be lashed to the stake.

I crank it up and take a sniff.