The two big air-conditioning units outside were cranking away.

Ben graduated from Duke last summer and has been cranking away on 2.0 since then.

He sat down at a table and began cranking away at his machine.

The moneywanter walks off staring at the hole cranking away, contentedly.

So all of the nodes are cranking away.

He got himself a Coke and some peanuts while the workstation cranked away.

In the back you can watch the doughnut machine cranking away.

I cranked away furiously at the upstream paddles to let the water in.

But today editorial writers, columnists and some politicians were cranking away on a favorite subject - how much more revelation can we take?

We didn't get the memo about shutting down and there's lots to do, so we'll just keep cranking away like always.