Sentence examples for like a crank from inspiring English sources

He risks sounding like a crank.

The guild, the studios, they treated him like a crank.

IT sounded like a crank call, the business equivalent of "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?": Hello, Warren Buffett wants to talk to your boss.

At the risk of sounding like a crank: Love is the problem with "Chagall: Love, War, and Exile" at the Jewish Museum.

His e-mails to regulators make him sound like a crank: "I trade very large but change my mind in a second"; "For the large part it is just my INTUITION".

Orgasms were the stuff of the academy and of politics in the 1970s, but now, to go anywhere near that stuff would be a fast and effective way to sound like a crank.

Over 100 items are within, like toothbrushes, a crank radio, Jif peanut butter and condoms.

To point this out is, inevitably, to sound like something of a crank, and the accomplishment of this book is to offer its cranky author and his like-minded readers a suitably contradictory and ambiguous consolation: we're not alone.

Other people are less interested, or simply couldn't care less, and would probably dismiss someone like myself as a crank, just for being vegetarian.

Because some Tupperware products, like the Quick Chef, which chops food with a crank like a salad spinner's, are not just convenient for people who are comfortable in the kitchen but also for those who are not, Mr. Goings said he hoped the event inspires women to buy the products and get men to pitch in.

The Rube Goldberg-like instrument is played by a crank that lifts the marbles up to the top so they can roll down.