crane
Example Sentences
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“You look at San Francisco, and there’s no cranes in the sky,” Chadorchi said.
"I saw a blue crane sliding. It seemed stuck for a moment, and suddenly it flipped over."
From BBC
The crane was being used to build an overhead railway that is part of a China-backed project to link Bangkok with neighbouring Laos, where a Chinese-built high-speed line is already running to south-western China.
From BBC
There was a great commotion up ahead that was causing people to gather in clumps and crane their necks for a glimpse.
From Literature
Uganda's flag -- created when the country achieved independence from Britain in 1962 -- has stripes of black to represent Africa, yellow for its sunshine, and red to represent African brotherhood, with a grey crowned crane overlaid.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
