Sentence examples for crank at from inspiring English sources

Very strong wrists, it turns out, capable of turning the crank at two rotations per second for long periods.

The auger is a metal cable with a crank at one end and a corkscrew-shaped tip at the other.

A closet auger consists of a metal cable with a crank at one end and a corkscrew-shaped tip at the other.

When he shakes the orb, it fills up with plastic snowflakes, and when he winds a little crank at its base, out comes a tinkly rendition of "White Christmas".

Another student, Mouna Andraos, fashioned a vending cart from wooden wine crates, a solar panel and a hand crank, at which she offered free alternative power for cellphones and portable music players.

Toward the end of his life, Brando, who had been an avid drummer, worked on a patenting a new conga drum that instead of being tuned by five or six screws at the top could be tuned only by a single crank at the bottom.

The acceleration experiments of the slider-crank at different driving speeds are carried out.

Both types are capable of supplying the necessary reliability for cranking at the lowest temperature (−40°C).

Instead, as the beat-heavy music cranked at a frenzied pace, the heads took up a gentle bobbing motion.

Addiction in Afghanistan is rising along with the country's opium production, which is cranking at something close to fever pitch.

As a final indignity pork-rollers are treated like cranks at deli counters and grocery stores when asking for something considered commonplace in Rahway or Randolph.