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  • verb Present participle of crane.

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Examples

  • “What are you doing?” she called craning her neck toward the hallway.

    Good Girl Gone Bad Karin Tabke 2006

  • What do you call craning over to see where your near-fore lands?

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • What do you call craning over to see where your near-fore lands?

    The Story of the Gadsbys Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • It's no longer a flat image that you're watching, with 3D you essential become part of the movement, so when in Avatar, the camera is "craning" over the characters, so is the audience.

    Scorsese Talks Sinatra, 3D and Low-Budget, Back-to-Basics Possibilities | /Film 2010

  • He was "craning" forward over the edge, as if half determined to leap from the summit, instead of turning to the easier descent by which he had got up.

    The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

  • The local newspaper made great fun of these paintings; and the reporter would have it, that “these lively saints looked very conscious of being put up there, and that they were constantly 'craning' their necks to look at one another ” as if they would inquire, 'I say, how do you like being there?' “

    From Death into Life Haslam, William 1880

  • Wyatt held his breath and stuck his head in the fireplace, craning his neck to peer upward, looking for daylight.

    A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011

  • Grisabella seems to live life looking upward, forever craning her neck to discover what nearly tree-tall item requires her attention.

    Meet Grisabella, my water-loving cat 2009

  • Most visitors to Paris's Notre Dame cathedral, craning their necks to take in the vast Gothic interior, marvel at a masterpiece of medieval architecture — the perfectly balanced proportions of massive pillars below and intricate filigree stonework above, the dizzying level of detail organized into a harmonious whole.

    Songs From the Old City on the Seine Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

  • Cars moved slowly around our two vehicles, people craning their heads to see what had happened.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

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