crank up

About an hour later it began to crank up again.

"How much time do you need to crank up those numbers?"

Perhaps one in seven if I got really cranked up.

We must do this to crank up the process and keep it moving.

His serve is cranked up to 115 miles an hour.

To do that, you have to crank up the volume.

I mean, Microsoft would probably now love to crank up the security, after the fact.

Tonight's episode takes too long to crank up the series' changes.

I want you in Israel first, cranking up on it.

Crank up the music so they have to speak loudly.

The bed was the hospital kind, and cranked up so she could almost sit.

"Whether you can crank up that brand to what it once was is a very big question."

There, men actually crank up some of the scenery by hand, as they did a century ago.

There's something about the salt air that gets me cranked up.

She let me in, then cranked up Ma on the phone.

If we were going to be naked most of the time around here, I should crank up the heat some.

They will work with personal music players if the volume is cranked up.

It felt as if someone had cranked up the heating.

She returned a moment later with a small radio, set it on the floor and cranked up the music.

When cranked up, it did not sound much like a Hoover.

The answer is not to stand by while the general cranks up his repression.

"But we have to put it behind us and get cranked up for Syracuse."

Over his shoulder, he heard somebody crank up a chain saw.

In any case, noise is not a bother when you crank up the 160-watt sound system.

"In the next few hours we'll really get cranked up.