Craning

The right pillow will keep the head from tilting too far back and extending the neck, or pushing it too far forward so you’re craning overnight, either of which puts pressure on the neck.

He doesn’t sit on any of the benches, instead shuffles along to the far end, within earshot of the judges, craning his neck to listen every time the Bench passes on a direction to the lawyers.

Craning my neck, I could just make out the back of a structure called The American Adventure, a colonial-style attraction where visitors can learn the history of our nation from an animatronic Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain.

To my right, every now and then, was someone craning their neck up, smiling as they spoke into earphones.

Dean Bofenkamp, who was visiting from Youngstown, Ohio, to attend his son’s basketball game, said he was craning his neck to catch a glimpse while on the plane to St. Thomas.

When I visited Tate’s Turbine Hall, visitors were walking around Walker’s fountain, craning their necks skyward to its peak, angling to get as much as possible of it in frame for a picture.

Most diners seemed oblivious to the security detail, but anyone craning to see which VIP was eating in the buzzy French brasserie would have been out of luck.

Today, what I remember most poignantly of our visit to the square, is standing beneath a bulking statue of Lenin, craning my neck to view his square staid body raised up on a pedestal towering above me.

The setting places the viewer as a spectator in front of the statue with the Cornaro family leaning out of their box seats and craning forward to see the mystical ecstasy of the saint.