crane
Example Sentences
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Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times
Look up and there are cranes and dozens of new skyscrapers.
From BBC
Unhappily, for most of the audience it requires craning your neck to see it, making it an elaborate distraction.
In California’s major urban areas, but especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, cranes delicately assembling factory-built modules into apartment blocks has become a more familiar feature of the skyline.
From Los Angeles Times
I crane my neck to see a taxi pull onto Astor Street.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
