1.   Willie craned his head over the counter and watched him measuring and cutting two rolls of grey and navy flannel.

2.   Craned her head to see the roof.

3.   There was a solid line of cars all the way back to it, drivers peering ahead or craning their heads out of the window.

4.   The barman craned his head across the counter.

5.   He craned his head slightly toward the traffic on Columbus Avenue and peered past the smudged passenger partition.

6.   His eyes were closed, his head craned back.

7.   I shifted my legs so my body faced away from the table and blew the smoke down, while craning my head back to talk.

8.   It is a bird craning its head back, suggesting that you must look into the past to go into the future.

9.   Sometimes the pilot had to crane his head out the window to see.

10.   The lone eagle sits and looks, cranes its head.