crane
Example Sentences
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But whenever I’m far enough away from the glow of streetlights, I crane my neck up and search for them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
It’s not too late to save the whooping crane, the red-cockaded woodpecker, the piping plover or any of the other 86 birds on the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
As one locomotive screeches into the old El-Raml Station, commuters and visitors crane their necks out of giant windows at the historic neo-Venetian buildings overhead.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
During the 1941 Clydebank Blitz, only seven out of 12,000 properties in the town are said to have escaped damage from German bombing but the giant crane was unscathed.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
If the boys were working on-site, sometimes I’d go along to drive the loader or forklift or crane.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
