Cranes can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| crane - stretch (the neck) so as to see better; "The women craned their necks to see the President drive by" | ||
Noun |
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| crane - large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world | ||
| crane - lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis | ||
| Crane - United States poet (1899-1932) | ||
| Crane - United States writer (1871-1900) | ||
| crane - a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | noun | If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, her wish will come true. | |
| 2. | noun | Cranes are big beautiful birds. | |
| 3. | noun | It was the first of the one thousand cranes that Sadako had to make. | |
| 4. | noun | All Sadako could do now was to make paper cranes and hope for a miracle. | |
| 5. | noun | How beautiful and free the cranes were! Sadako sighed and closed her eyes. | |
| 6. | noun | Sadako had folded 643 paper cranes so far. | |
| 7. | noun | Her classmates folded three hundred and fifty-six cranes so that one thousand were buried with her. | |
| 8. | noun | She looked at her flight of cranes hanging from the ceiling, which her brother Masahiro had hung there for her. | |
| 9. | noun | The cranes tend to make their nests in the bell towers of churches. | |
| 10. | noun | You assemble cranes. | |
| 11. | noun | How many cranes are there in this port? | |
| 12. | noun | Cranes flying low indicate warm weather. | |
| 13. | noun | Dan operated some of the most massive cranes in the world. | |
| 14. | noun | You know very well that storms and cranes don't mix. | |
| 15. | noun | Cranes can lift heavy weights but stand on the ground. In contrast, cranes fly gracefully in the sky. |
| Sentence | |
|---|---|
| noun | |
| If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, her wish will come true. | |
| Cranes are big beautiful birds. | |
| It was the first of the one thousand cranes that Sadako had to make. | |
| All Sadako could do now was to make paper cranes and hope for a miracle. | |
| How beautiful and free the cranes were! Sadako sighed and closed her eyes. | |
| Sadako had folded 643 paper cranes so far. | |
| Her classmates folded three hundred and fifty-six cranes so that one thousand were buried with her. | |
| She looked at her flight of cranes hanging from the ceiling, which her brother Masahiro had hung there for her. | |
| The cranes tend to make their nests in the bell towers of churches. | |
| You assemble cranes. | |
| How many cranes are there in this port? | |
| Cranes flying low indicate warm weather. | |
| Dan operated some of the most massive cranes in the world. | |
| You know very well that storms and cranes don't mix. | |
| Cranes can lift heavy weights but stand on the ground. In contrast, cranes fly gracefully in the sky. | |