crane
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Vehicles are placed on metal racks that are lifted by crane and stored in the hold of cargo ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Northumbria Police said it was called to South Shields Port of Tyne at 13:00 BST after "it was reported that, for reasons yet to be established, a ship had collided with a crane".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
He was speaking after workers used a crane to remove the metal gates that had long separated La Linea from Gibraltar.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
She would stay there for hours, holding the golden crane in her lap.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
Gantry cranes were washed away, silt and boulders jammed the headworks, and floodwaters entered the power house, knocking the plant offline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“How many cranes are there in downtown Los Angeles today?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
By contrast, logistics is pretty mundane; the big contractors don’t pine for contracts to build oiler ships, cranes, or commissaries.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Working under the bridge's blue lights, dozens of Taiwanese army combat engineers assisted by cranes and trucks set up layers of concrete and steel barriers, barbed wire and Hesco walls along the nearly one-kilometre-long bridge.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
To keep the magic working she made more cranes.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
A swarm of tourists craned their necks to see the instalment of the cross's upper arm, visible amid the scaffolding and workers who put finishing touches from their harnesses.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Tugging at kite strings in the field are a group of children, their necks craned towards the skies.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025
During the roughly 10-day shoot, which took place in August 2023, drones approximated the dragons’ flight path so the actors on the ground knew where to look when they craned their necks toward the sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
During the final stretch of the Chicago race, they were leaning over barricades, necks craned, looking for their husbands flying by at a pace close to 4 minutes and 53 seconds per mile.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
Ernie craned his neck to see out the window, yawning.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
Unhappily, for most of the audience it requires craning your neck to see it, making it an elaborate distraction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
The man appeared alert, yelling and craning his head as he was hoisted into the vehicle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
My head pain was quelled thanks to the drugs, but now my neck and back began to flare up, the previous day’s slouching and craning setting in.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2024
You should position yourself so that you’re not craning your neck upward or to the side.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Even craning my neck backward, I didn’t see how that scene ended.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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