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Examples for "crank "
Examples for "crank "
1 Last year's debut model could crank through 600 billion operations per second.
2 Needless to say, Bennewitz was treated by many as simply a crank .
3 He had attempted in vain to take the pedal off the crank .
4 Of course, I may also have persuaded them that I'm a crank .
5 He only hoped the article wouldn't increase the rate of crank visits.
1 His opposite in character was Pepper Sneed, the grouch of the company.
2 Christian Scientists do not have either the grouch or the meddler's itch.
3 This sort of thing is enough to give any one a grouch .
4 Maybe that would take some of the grouch out of Tom Kyle.
5 I don't want you to descend to the level of the grouch .
1 My heart lurched with anger; the churl might have lowered his voice.
2 In that case I cannot be such a churl as to refuse.
3 I should be a churl if I did not tell you so.
4 But he is a mannerless churl , we will not think of him.
5 My kinswoman could have received no greater kindness at the churl 's hands.
1 But it's no use to ask such a crosspatch to take me.
2 He was just an old crosspatch in a natural wool tunic; I could have been wrong.
3 There, dearie, don't mind an old crosspatch .
4 Just because your father's an old crosspatch , YOU haven't lost your rights to his name and property.
5 Oh, yes, yes; we know that, crosspatch .
1 Simply the greatest maid, confidante, factotum and grump of her generation.
2 By the psychologist's own account, he was a depressive grump for 40 years.
3 Allie the amazon stayed on the bed right next to Maria the grump .
4 The joy of Monday turned Rivers into a grump on Wednesday.
5 The taxi driver sensed my grump and never uttered a word.
6 He's an acid-tongued grump , but with a soupçon of rascally charm.
7 He sounded really pissed, which was another reason I didn't grouse or grump .
8 Don't think for a second that SBW is being a grump in Rio, though.
9 Someone dressed as fictional Christmas grump The Grinch continued with the planned toy giveaway.
10 The taxi driver sensed my grump and never - aword
11 It wasn't as if he wanted to be a grump .
12 In fact, he has been described as "an equal opportunities grump " .
13 The old mole-eyed grump never sees anybody nor anything.
14 Because how dare we get a bit of a grump on after a long day.
15 They describe not a grump , but rather a down-to-earth man with a dry sense of humor.
16 They describe not a grump , but rather a down-to-earth man with a dry sense of humour.
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