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.