Sentence examples for crank in from inspiring English sources

I thought he'd become a crank in his old age.

"I'm like the crank in the bus queue now.

Crank, in mechanics, arm secured at right angle to a shaft with which it can rotate or oscillate.

And in this case the loser is not a crank in a shed hurling abuse at railway planners, but wealthy investors in mortgage-backed securities.

Twenty or 30 turns of a large crank in the cockpit enabled the pilot to change the position of the wings.

An assortment of little men and women in different costumes revolve, dance and play a violin when a crank in front is turned.

A study is made of an in-line slider crank mechanism in which the sliding mass is elastically supported.

I yanked sheets of paper out of the roller and cranked in new ones.

I'll sure as hell never forget those lunch hours, turning those pages, the Komatsu loader cranking in the distance.

Indeed, support from billionaires has always been the main thing keeping those charlatans and cranks in business.

They came to stand out as blunt cranks in an essentially romantic art movement, and attacked institutions on principle.