Sentence examples for cranks of from inspiring English sources

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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.

She needs... to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry radius".

But now attention is being turned to a genus of baseball creature rarely examined through statistics: the manager, who sets the lineups, calls for hit-and-runs and otherwise turns the cranks of in-game strategy.

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Intel cranks out millions of copies of a single design.

About 5am, the cranking of diesel engines shatters the stillness of the early morning Jerilderie air.

Still, it's a start, the first crank of the wheel.

"Pitooey," said Rajinder Tyagi, a businessman, with a sharp crank of his head.

One day in November, he heard the faraway cranking of a gate, followed by muffled footsteps in the corridor.

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