What is "cranking up"

Usage examples of "cranking up".

That is my last real memory of Al Davis: It was getting dark in Oakland, the rest of the team had already gone into the showers, the coach was inside speaking sagely with a gaggle of local sportswriters, somewhere beyond the field-fence a big jet was cranking up its afterburners on the airport runway.

The Space and Freedom Party taking over the EU, and cranking up to escape velocity.

He immediately put the seaplane into a dive, cranking up his small Electronic Counter-Measures package and arming all his weapons in the process.

Lon gave special attention to me barracks where the soldiers were, cranking up the pickups on his helmet to the maximum each time they came near them, listening for any sounds from within.

The band would be cranking up soon, and Jack Straw's was getting crowded.

I was actually looking forward to getting in my old Chevrolet, cranking up all the windows, and driving out of the city, which I had begun to see as a sink of lightning.

He finished cranking up the front windows while spinning the steering wheel to bring the machine around in the street.

Trystin sighed and lowered the shields to half-power, while cranking up the thrusters, and heading into a stern chase.

And we don't need the National Rifle Association cranking up its scare campaign, a gun in every house and a tank in every garage.

The platoon leader of her 2nd Platoon, Second Lieutenant Marc Gross, reported that while his dismounted infantry near the river line could hear numerous vehicles cranking up, they had no visual sightings yet and were not under fire.

Holding the beer can to her forehead, she contemplated getting into her car, cranking up the AC and trying to fall asleep.

When they passed the construction on the 784 extension, the day's operation was already cranking up.