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Its dish-shaped high-gain antenna had craned its neck and pointed toward the earth; a stream of coded information was throbbing along its narrow radio beam.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bat had craned his neck, looking out each window carefully.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

Kennedy had craned his neck out beyond the corner of the bath-houses and was looking at the Furious in the basin.

From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

This had excited her so much that at risk of toppling into the street, she had craned her neck from her window, and observed a similar illumination in the house of Major Flint.

From Miss Mapp by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

Immediately a gasp, then a snicker had run through the roomful; then necks had craned and heads turned to catch looks at Frank and the other freshman who stood, flushed and humiliated, in their midst.

From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.