korba in English:

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Sam is unimpressed as her boyfriend cranks the volume up and sings along

a health food crank

To start an engine use this crank.

Use the crank to make it work.

Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks.

Some crank sent us threats.

Yesterday I got a crank phone call. The guy on the phone said that he was the president of the USA.

It's only half an hour on foot, don't be such a crank.

Hey! I don't want any crank calls - not at this hour.

It will take you a whole lifetime to understand a crank like him.

What a crank he is!

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Do you have a wrench in your tool box?

Hand me the wrench.

A wrench is a commonly used tool.

The shark looked at him and wrenched the meat loose.

His hands were tied but he managed to wrench himself free.

Factional in-fighting threw a monkey wrench into the deliberations.

The astronaut lost his grip on the wrench and all he could do was watch in dismay as it floated serenely away.