Sentence examples for cranks over from inspiring English sources

But, undeterred, on the up slope I would rise out of my saddle and continue turning the cranks over in the highest gear, certain that I was pedalling towards my golden future.

That ride, known as the Princeton 200 for its distance in kilometers, is a brevet, or starting ride for the New Jersey Randonneurs, a group of long-distance cyclists who turn their cranks over as many as 250 miles in a day and work their way up to continuous rides with distances that might make a trucker blanch.

This is where the conspiracy cranks to over 9000: Nokia baked financial incentive into Elop's contract should he sell the company.

It was a slider that Ventura cranked over the 371-foot sign, striking another uproar at Shea, this time for the visitors.

A camel's roar begins as a coarse bellow, degenerates into the rumble of a 1948 Chevy cranking over, and ends as the sound of water gurgling through a drainpipe.

So in May she and her riding partner, a former Marine named John Steele, set out to ride 4,200 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific, cranking over mountain passes and coasting along quiet river roads.

He walked two, the fewest among his four starts, and showed improved command of his fastball — except on the pitch that Ramírez cranked over the fence in left-center field to give the Cubs a 2-0 lead.

While they do not claim to know why the hair dryer burns out before the big date; why the computer some days seems that it knows what is wanted of it, or why a driver coos, "come on baby," when cranking over the car on a freezing morning -- they say such things can be cases of mind over matter.

Instead of a motor cranking over, the electronic systems come to life.

Once engaged, the Veyron's quad-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 64-valve W-16 is capable of cranking over 1000 horses.

Host: McCain sadly seems to have gone from hero to crank over the past 50 years.