Sentence examples for crank with from inspiring English sources
I recall that she once said that a person who didn't eat butter was a crank with limp hair.
All this might create the impression of a musical crank with a taste for electronics and vast stage spectacles.
A hard-living crank with a trademark mustache, he sang his wry tales of losers and jilted lovers in a striking, world-weary baritone.
Bret Heidkamp, the chief executive at IST, compares charging a phone through the SideWinder's hand-powered crank with reeling in a large fish.
The familiar and common brace, a crank with a breast swivel at one end and a drill point at the other, is first seen in a painting of about 1425 that shows the biblical Joseph at his bench.
Watson senior "struck his contemporaries as a nut and a crank with his policy that 'People who perform are my partners'," according to the late management guru, Peter Drucker.Idealism was sharpened by feelings of guilt over earlier ethical lapses.
Every ball, from the serve to the ground strokes, is being cranked with topspin.
It made a curious, grinding sound as I cranked with both arms, creating a hole the size of a dinner plate.
Still, it's frustrating when cranks with guns, wherever they are, force the rest of us into an expensive defensive crouch just because their crimes are exceptionally lurid or publicized.
In handcycling, three-wheeled machines couple specially designed aerodynamic wheels and multispeed gearing to hand-operated cranks, with legless riders like Zanardi seated snugly, upright, in carbon-fiber farings.
The people who will cheer the "progressive" Ed Miliband the loudest if reform fails will be Scientologists, oligarchs, CEOs, bankers, cranks with more money than sense and, of course, Charles Falconer's colleagues at the Bar.
