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crank up

VERB
  1. rotate with a crank
  2. start by cranking
    crank up the engine

How To Use crank up In A Sentence

  • During the last 10 seconds of your 60-second recovery jog, crank up the speed for your next sprint.
  • You can take the previous releases and crank up the volume but it only makes it sound louder, you don't get the clarity and articulation you hear in this latest release using the latest technology.
  • The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime. The Mural II
  • Imagine your commanders surprise when you crank up the engine and hover over the Garage!
  • crank up the engine
  • The brokers are dancing now, shouting to the barman to crank up the volume. Times, Sunday Times
  • They like to crank up the bass, and “good” PA speakers will sound tight and toppy. In which I undertake an A-B comparison of Rubber Soul on £1200 speakers « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • So, for Tubby's version of the song, he kept things as simple as he could: crank up the bass, the drums, and the looping guitar lick, and strip out all but a smattering of Badoo vocal samples that he uses as accentuation.
  • We have to crank up growth because that decreases the financial gaps,' he added. Times, Sunday Times
  • We have to crank up growth because that decreases the financial gaps,' he added. Times, Sunday Times
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