'crank of' is not a correct phrase in written English.
To make an example sentence using 'crank up', you could say: "I cranked up the radio so I could hear it better."
"Pitooey," said Rajinder Tyagi, a businessman, with a sharp crank of his head.
Turn the crank of the Dynamo & Solar Radio for one minute to hear 10 minutes of tunes, news or sports.
It played all night: thunk, thunk, thunk, as the coins dropped into the slot, followed by the grinding crank of unseen gears as the rod was yanked out.
Lonesome George obliged me with a weary crank of his long neck, a testudine testament, it seemed, to the rapacious, ecologically awful demands of man.
With a crank of the handle, the tomatoes are pushed into a worm — a big, grooved screw — that turns inside a cone-shaped sieve.
All it takes to send Mr. Gerberich's creations into motion is the push of a button or the crank of a wheel.
Had the night gone differently, the hunters — usually using a rod and reel, but maybe a snare or a harpoon — would have captured the gator alive after a battle resembling the muscular pump-and-crank of an angler fighting a marlin.
But after a few cranks of the handle, the mechanism jammed.
Two cranks of the handle and a bass bulged up behind the lure.
"The anti-western intellectual cranks of the left suffered a collective breakdown when communism collapsed.
He rants about it the way the great cranks of ages past ranted about fluoride, aliens, and C.I.A. mind control.
