crank
Example Sentences
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The boy on the fiddle turns a knob on an oversize boom box, cranks up the volume, and starts strumming.
From Literature
I turn on the one next to her, crank it to almost scalding, and squeeze some shampoo from the dispenser into my hand.
From Literature
Nick Lichtenberg has used the technology to crank out 600 stories since rejoining Fortune in July, a potential bellwether for where much of the media business is headed.
One Wednesday in February, he cranked out seven.
“Everybody’s cranking as hard and as fast as they can anyway,” said a senior Energy Department official.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
