crane

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

During a stop at the Russian port of Vladivostok, last October, the crew tried, without success, to repair a davit, a small specialised crane used to lower the tanker's life boats into the water.

From BBC